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Is an egg a day, ok?
Egg is one of my favorite breakfast. I'm having omellete, fried egg, and boiled egg in every breakfast for the past 2 years. Someone told me recently that eggs are high in cholesterol, so I did a cholesterol test and everything appeared normal. I'm still not 100% sure if I should continue with my egg a day so I'm just wondering if anyone here has any advice regarding this?
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I've been eating an average of 2 eggs every day for 33 years and my cholesterol levels are excellent. Eggs are possibly my single favorite food item. I can't think of anything else I could eat every single day and not get tired of it.
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Eat what you want. You are going to die anyway.
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It's the yolk that has high concentration of cholesterol - just reduce that and have more egg whites.
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You're probably fine. Dietary cholesterol doesn't have that much of an impact on your blood cholesterol anyway....at least not as much as saturated and trans fats.
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Eggs can be a vector for some other unhealthy items: salt, dairy fat (omelets), and grease/oil (fried eggs). Depending on how you choose to cook and serve eggs, you can have a lot of variation in the associated health effects. Think of eggs along a health continuum from the mostly harmless hard-boiled egg white (no salt!) to the fattening Eggs Benedict.
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Originally Posted by Savage25
(Post 14033694)
You're probably fine. Dietary cholesterol doesn't have that much of an impact on your blood cholesterol anyway....at least not as much as saturated and trans fats.
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Originally Posted by EveryPointCounts
(Post 14033220)
I'm still not 100% sure if I should continue with my egg a day so I'm just wondering if anyone here has any advice regarding this?
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Low cholestrol (and high Omega-3) eggs are available in many countries and those are healthier. Better feed is used for the chickens in order to change the composition of the egg. Cost more but worth it if you are concerned.
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Originally Posted by slawecki
really? then why are people put on "low cholesterol" diets?
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Originally Posted by Jazzop
(Post 14036573)
Eggs can be a vector for some other unhealthy items: salt, dairy fat (omelets), and grease/oil (fried eggs). Depending on how you choose to cook and serve eggs, you can have a lot of variation in the associated health effects. Think of eggs along a health continuum from the mostly harmless hard-boiled egg white (no salt!) to the fattening Eggs Benedict.
As for cholesterol, LDL (low density lipoprotein) is bad for you, but HDL (high density lipoprotein) is actually good for you and actually helps get rid of the LDL. |
My breakfast is usually 1 whole egg and 2 egg whites scrambled, cooked with a very small amount of oil, and served on toast. High in protein; low in fat. It keeps me going till lunch very easily.
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Originally Posted by bensyd
(Post 14044924)
My breakfast is usually 1 whole egg and 2 egg whites scrambled, cooked with a very small amount of oil, and served on toast. High in protein; low in fat. It keeps me going till lunch very easily.
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How much is an egg cost in your area? My neighbor Kroger is 1.39 per dozen eggs.
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The stigma concerning cholesterol has been fairly overblown or the data misinterpreted over the last few decades. Cholesterol is an essential and vital part of any diet because cholesterol is essential for the body (without it we are dead); what is important is the kinds of cholesterol one consumes, the source of the cholesterol and the overall diet. A breakfast of omelet filled with cheese alongside heaps of bacon, sausages and beans plus a "healthy" shower of salt will not do your health any favours, but not only because of the egg yolks. A boiled egg over whole-wheat bread is another matter entirely.
Furthermore, the overall health should also be considered. Studies have shown eating too many eggs has been associated with heart problems in type 2 diabetics and older males predisposed to cardiovascular problems (either due to obesity/overweight or familial history). Abstract from an academic review done by the University of Manitoba:
Originally Posted by International Journal of Clinical Practice
For many years, both the medical community and the general public have incorrectly associated eggs with high serum cholesterol and being deleterious to health, even though cholesterol is an essential component of cells and organisms. It is now acknowledged that the original studies purporting to show a linear relation between cholesterol intake and coronary heart disease (CHD) may have contained fundamental study design flaws, including conflated cholesterol and saturated fat consumption rates and inaccurately assessed actual dietary intake of fats by study subjects. Newer and more accurate trials, such as that conducted by Frank B. Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health (1999), have shown that consumption of up to seven eggs per week is harmonious with a healthful diet, except in male patients with diabetes for whom an association in higher egg intake and CHD was shown. The degree to which serum cholesterol is increased by dietary cholesterol depends upon whether the individual's cholesterol synthesis is stimulated or down-regulated by such increased intake, and the extent to which each of these phenomena occurs varies from person to person. Several recent studies have shed additional light on the specific interplay between dietary cholesterol and cardiovascular health risk. It is evident that the dynamics of cholesterol homeostasis, and of development of CHD, are extremely complex and multifactorial. In summary, the earlier purported adverse relationship between dietary cholesterol and heart disease risk was likely largely over-exaggerated.
Originally Posted by Journal of the American College of Nutrition
... Several studies have examined egg intake and its relationship with coronary outcomes. All but one failed to consider the role of other potentially confounding dietary factors. When dietary confounders were considered, no association was seen between egg consumption at levels up to 1 + egg per day and the risk of coronary heart disease in non-diabetic men and women.
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Originally Posted by skchin
(Post 14045575)
How much is an egg cost in your area? My neighbor Kroger is 1.39 per dozen eggs.
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Originally Posted by bensyd
(Post 14044924)
My breakfast is usually 1 whole egg and 2 egg whites scrambled, cooked with a very small amount of oil, and served on toast. High in protein; low in fat. It keeps me going till lunch very easily.
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It isn't opinion that matters; it's data
You can get an opinion from here and there, but you need large numbers to really tell. Study here:
"A Harvard study of over 21,000 male physicians found that men who ate up to 6 eggs a week had no increase in their rate of death. But once they ate a seventh egg, their risk of death went up 23%." http://longevity.about.com/od/lifelo...ggs_health.htm Personally, I think you will be fine (opinion here). But I would not over-do it with the eggs. I only eat eggs sporadically, and if I can, I remove the egg yolks. |
Correlation <> causation.
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I probably average an egg per day - and my cholesterol is low.
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really? then why are people put on "low cholesterol" diets? A doctor is not likely to give a lot of advice to someone who doesn't have health problems such as high cholesterol. "A Harvard study of over 21,000 male physicians found that men who ate up to 6 eggs a week had no increase in their rate of death. But once they ate a seventh egg, their risk of death went up 23%." Of course, that can mean many things. People who eat too much of one thing are likely not having a varied diet. This group also includes those who eat 40 eggs per week. To the OP, see your doctor, not a travel forum. I doubt that you'd want to talk to your doctor about what program is best for elite status. |
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