Hard boiled eggs

Stepho57

Is anyone afraid of eating to many hard boiled eggs due to cholesterol?

goldthistime

Personally I stick to one or two egg yolks a day, but unlimited whites.

ljmorgi

Mostly I'm afraid of eating too many boiled eggs due to sulfur farts...

Athijade

Nope. More recent studies are showing that the cholesterol in foods has little to no impact on blood serum levels for the majority of people. In fact, eating more eggs helped me lose weight and my cholesterol numbers improved by quite a bit.

HeidiCooksSupper

^^THIS^^

The state of the science of cholesterol has changed in a major way. It is now known that the link between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol is true for only a very few people. Far and away, for the majority of us, the driver of serum cholesterol is an excess of simple carbohydrates (think of things like granulated sugar and white flour) and physical activity.

The new recommendations on fat consumption have no upper limit for mono- and poly-unsaturated fats but do recommend limiting consumption of saturated fats. There is a weak link between over-consumption of saturated fats and cardiac problems. Unfortunately, egg yolks do have some saturated fat. One large egg has about 1.5 grams of saturated fat.

So, consider the rest of your diet and how eggs fit in to your saturated fat consumption. The American Heart Association, whose recommendations for such things tend to be pretty strict, recommends that only 7% of your daily calories should be saturated fats. So, let's say you eat 1500 calories/day. Your daily AHA limit for saturated fat would be 105 calories or 11.67 grams of saturated fat. In other words, if eggs were your only source of saturated fat you could eat 7 or 8 a day and still stay within the AHA limit.

I set my saturated fat target limit in my goals to a more loosey-goosey 18 grams per day. It's not my two morning eggs that tend to blow it over but instead meats, cheeses, and full-fat dairy.

MeechyLA

goldthistime wrote: »

Personally I stick to one or two egg yolks a day, but unlimited whites.

+1! I have 4 boiled egg whites every morning for breakfast, I don't even miss the yolks anymore.

mrw0915

I mostly just stick with egg whites when I add them to give my protein shake an extra protein boost. Otherwise, I do not eat eggs with the yolks all that often except once in a while on the weekends and utilizing them in recipes.

Ready2Rock206

Athijade wrote: »

Nope. More recent studies are showing that the cholesterol in foods has little to no impact on blood serum levels for the majority of people. In fact, eating more eggs helped me lose weight and my cholesterol numbers improved by quite a bit.

This. Eggs are great - filling, low calorie, easy to prepare...

vingogly

I also love egg yolks. They used to be condemned along with shellfish. Here's a short article on the myth and reality of dietary cholesterol:

https://heartuk.org.uk/cholesterol-and-diet/low-cholesterol-diets-and-foods/dietary-cholesterol

iamthemotherofdogs

What do you personally define as too much? Just out of curiousity. I always understood eggs to be one of those good-fat foods, like avocados.

DX2JX2

If they were good enough for Paul Newman, who am I to say no?