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Eggs - food from the gods

Shesaid_destroy
Shesaid_destroy Posts: 128
edited February 1 in Food and Nutrition
I love eggs, they are so yummy, easy to cook, rather low in cal and filling. Oh and not that expensive either!
However, i know the yolk may trigger cholesterol. On a healthy diet, relatively low on fat, with 0 trans fat, how many eggs per week can one eat without worrying about cholesterol ?

Thank you for your input, it is always appreciated.

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  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Don't worry about it.

    It has like little to no effect on your heart cholesterol.

    eat all the eggs you want. I eat upwards of 10 a day. I'm fine.
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    If you don't have a cholesterol problem there's no need to worry. Actually it hasn't been proven that even if you do have an issue that cutting out eggs will help.
  • timbrom
    timbrom Posts: 303 Member
    Get your cholesterol checked yearly (probably ought to be doing that anyhow). Worry about your cholesterol when your cholesterol levels are too high.

    Dietary cholesterol affects your cholesterol levels much less than overall fitness and bodyfat levels. Keep those last two in control and, typically, you don't have to worry about the first one.
  • Laurayinz
    Laurayinz Posts: 931 Member
    i know the yolk may trigger cholesterol.
    that's a myth.
    http://www.health.com/health/condition-article/0,,20259746,00.html
    It's true that eggs have a lot of dietary cholesterol—upwards of 200 mg, which is more than two-thirds of the American Heart Association's recommended limit of 300 mg a day. But dietary cholesterol isn't nearly as dangerous as was once thought. Only some of the cholesterol in food ends up as cholesterol in your bloodstream, and if your dietary cholesterol intake rises, your body compensates by producing less cholesterol of its own.

    While you don't want to overdo it, eating an egg or two a few times a week isn't dangerous. In fact, eggs are an excellent source of protein and contain unsaturated fat, a so-called good fat.
    On a healthy diet, relatively low on fat, with 0 trans fat, how many eggs per week can one eat without worrying about cholesterol ?
    as many as you like!
  • runnerchick69
    runnerchick69 Posts: 317 Member
    Me too :) Love them!
  • fitpam90x
    fitpam90x Posts: 197 Member
    I absolutely LOVE eggs. I haven't had an egg yolk directly in almost a year though but egg whites are the best and my favorite breakfast because they really are filling and low and cal and you can change it up every time. Whether its adding some feta or spinach or tomato, it's all GOOD.

    I'm eating egg whites as we speak:laugh:
  • SadFaerie
    SadFaerie Posts: 243 Member
    Don't worry about it.

    It has like little to no effect on your heart cholesterol.

    eat all the eggs you want. I eat upwards of 10 a day. I'm fine.
    Thumbs up. If I had to pick one food product I could never ever do without, it would be eggs. I start nearly every day with 2-3 eggs, my blood test results make my GP envious. She even said "You clearly have good genes." Yeah, right... How about... good diet?
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    I'm glad others posted about it being a myth. :)

    This time of year I love getting eggs from the farmer's market or from the farm I volunteer at. :)
  • Shesaid_destroy
    Shesaid_destroy Posts: 128
    Alrighty! Thank you guys for the answers.
    For those wondering, i have no cholesterol as of now (my highest weight ever minus the 2 first kilos lost) and never had it.
    So i will keep on eating those small wonders !
  • kasiaj
    kasiaj Posts: 63 Member
    "I love eggs from my head down to my legs" ;) Doesn't matter how many and eat the whole egg (the yoke is where the nutrients are).
  • Shesaid_destroy
    Shesaid_destroy Posts: 128
    Don't worry about it.

    It has like little to no effect on your heart cholesterol.

    eat all the eggs you want. I eat upwards of 10 a day. I'm fine.

    I am no way near 10 a day ;)
  • Beckyann1971
    Beckyann1971 Posts: 130
    I love eggs too. And rely on them a lot with all my food issues. Sometimes I ate up to four a day. Thinking it was all a myth. Then nutrtionist was concerned and said eat no more than two a day plus egg whites so I changed it. Hasn't mattered. Now with possible gallbladder issues I see conflicting opinions on how eggs may or may not effect that. I still eat them as I don't have a lot of choice for protein.
  • SadFaerie
    SadFaerie Posts: 243 Member
    "I love eggs from my head down to my legs" ;) Doesn't matter how many and eat the whole egg (the yoke is where the nutrients are).
    Damn right! I never remove my yolks, it's the best source of nutriments! I'd rather eat two whole eggs, than one and five whites. Besides, I never know what people do with yolks if they buy whole eggs and only eat whites. I grew up having a lot of respect for food, I can never just throw good stuff away. Feels very wrong to me.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    I tried one time to make an egg white scramble (I don't DO omelettes) and I cookied the yolks up separate for my cats- and just b/c I wanted to see what a sauteed egg yolk tasted like on it's on.

    I normally scrap food for the animals AFTER i'm done eating and THANK GOD I DID- my egg "white" scramble was nasty as H3LL. I grabbed the yolks and chopped them up with the rest. Poor cats- they had to eat plain purina.

    Barf- NEVER AGAIN. That is nasty- how people eat egg white omelette's only is beyond me. blarg.

    That being said- I do believe it's time for me to go consume my afternoon sack of eggs... 6.5 oz of egg veggies, sausage. Delicious noms for an afternoon snack!
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