why do some people only eat the egg whites, not the whole eg
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My husband gets really annoyed that I throw the yolks away, especially because we raise our own chickens. But I have a lot of heart disease in my family. I really shouldn't be eating cheese either, but I eat it sparingly. I had a registered dietician tell me I should only have 2 eggs per week, with my family history of high cholesterol. And it is extra calories that I don't want, so I have whites whenever I can. My dietician says that's where the protien is at anyway.
We skim the fat off our soups, so I don't see what the big deal is about getting rid of the fat.
My husband insists my dietician is wrong, and that eggs are meant to be eaten whole, but I trust her and her degree and experience. I don't put him or anyone else down for eating whole eggs. But for me, I say "not so much".0 -
It's actually very GOOD for you. But people overreact about the calories and cholesterol. People who disregard the yolk are cheating themselves out of some great nutrient-dense food. :frown:
People that skip the yolks, like me.... won't have to take Lipitor any longer either. While I appreciate your point of view, I am not overreacting to my own circumstance by cheating myself of egg yolks.
From my understanding, if your cholesterol is normal or low, you can indulge in all the yolks you like. However, when I was diagnosed with high cholesterol, my doctor referred me to a registered dietician who recommended no more than two yolks per week.
My cholesterol is genetic and my HDL is VERY high, so I refuse to take the meds, but I certainly trust an RD's recommendation that also jives with things I've read on the subject from some very reliable sources (that weren't Internet message boards). :-)
I'm kind of confused about the people trying to convince everyone we should be eating yolks if we don't want to ...
Thank you, yeah I was trying to say what you said.0 -
To those that avoid the egg yolk:
You're eating it anyway in other products, baked goods, pasta, processed foods...0 -
It is immoral to eat something that could have been a lifeform. Would you eat an aborted fetus?
Not human , but any other animal I'd probably give it a try if it was prepared in a tasty manner.
For those of you that watch Anthony Bourdain's 'No Reservations' you see that many animal parts are served up in a tasty manner in many cultures.
Never be afraid to try something new. 0 -
To those that avoid the egg yolk:
You're eating it anyway in other products, baked goods, pasta, processed foods...
Oh my gosh! Really??? I had absolutely NO IDEA until you just told me that there is egg yolk in those things. THANK YOU SO MUCH for being my great savior! I will stop eating all of those things IMMEDIATELY!
Whew!0 -
I have about 4 eggs a day with the yolks to help get my protein and fat in for weightlifting. A lot of the data about food consumption and its effects on the body is outdated and only continued on due to the general lack of public knowledge on the subject. Example here would be Coconut Oil. It was pretty much public enemy number 1 when it was found to have caused higher cholesterol in rabbits. But it turns out that oil was partially hydrogenated purposefully to increase the rabbits cholesterol for testing. 10 years later Coconut Oil has actually become a health food with many benefits over standard oils.
With that said here is an article on a recent egg study: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7882850.stm
Most RD's are required to "study" all the latest studies, and they have very credible resources to back up their recommendations. I'm a personal trainer, and I have to stay up on all the latest exercise information, but it always amazes me that people think they know more because they heard it or read it on a study. Science evolves, and yes sometimes things are found new, but I will rely on my RD"s PERSONAL recommendations for me. In the same way, I hope my clients rely on the PERSONAL recommendations I make for them.0 -
To those that avoid the egg yolk:
You're eating it anyway in other products, baked goods, pasta, processed foods...
Actually, only when I chose to as I eat little to know baked goods, pasta, processed foods. My son and I are allergic to gluten and soy and in order to avoid these things I pretty much make all of our processed foods. Anywho, that's just an aside because I like to be difficult. I don't eat the egg yolks because I'd rather have the cheese, so I have a 3 egg white omlette with cheese. But when I don't have cheese I eat 2 eggs, 1 with and 1 without. I need the protein, not the fat or calories.0 -
To those that avoid the egg yolk:
You're eating it anyway in other products, baked goods, pasta, processed foods...
Oh my gosh! Really??? I had absolutely NO IDEA until you just told me that there is egg yolk in those things. THANK YOU SO MUCH for being my great savior! I will stop eating all of those things IMMEDIATELY!
Whew!
No need to be annoying and mean. I was only putting a friendly reminder out because often people that avoid egg yolks forget it is in so many things.0 -
Somewhere in the world, a baby is born every 1.7
seconds. This means, that in the time it takes to fry an egg in
a conventional frying pan, over 137 babies have been born.
Unless you like your egg really crispy and golden brown on the
outside like I do, in which case you could have over 200 really
crispy, fried babies. Or, if you're cooking on gas, about 194.
An important lesson for us all there I think0 -
To those that avoid the egg yolk:
You're eating it anyway in other products, baked goods, pasta, processed foods...
Oh my gosh! Really??? I had absolutely NO IDEA until you just told me that there is egg yolk in those things. THANK YOU SO MUCH for being my great savior! I will stop eating all of those things IMMEDIATELY!
Whew!
No need to be annoying and mean. I was only putting a friendly reminder out because often people that avoid egg yolks forget it is in so many things.
"Annoying and mean" are generally my reactions to condescension. :-)0 -
To those that avoid the egg yolk:
You're eating it anyway in other products, baked goods, pasta, processed foods...
Actually, only when I chose to as I eat little to know baked goods, pasta, processed foods. My son and I are allergic to gluten and soy and in order to avoid these things I pretty much make all of our processed foods. Anywho, that's just an aside because I like to be difficult. I don't eat the egg yolks because I'd rather have the cheese, so I have a 3 egg white omlette with cheese. But when I don't have cheese I eat 2 eggs, 1 with and 1 without. I need the protein, not the fat or calories.
Thank you for posting that. That is what I was getting at. For people that have to restrict certain things from their diets it can be tough because that particular food (even if it is soy or nuts or something they do not like to eat) may be found in a lot of products.0 -
"Annoying and mean" are generally my reactions to condescension. :-)
See my above response. I was not attempting to be condescending in any regard. You took my response the wrong way and over-reacted.0 -
It is immoral to eat something that could have been a lifeform. Would you eat an aborted fetus?
That is a very harsh thing to say!!!
I assume you don't eat meat either? More so, I would hope you don't. Because you can't make a remark like that and then go and eat chicken for your protein. Meat was a life form.
I eat eggs and meat. Although I don't eat ground beef anymore due to the fat. I haven't eaten a egg yolk either. However, this forum is making me feel like I can. Which would make a huge difference for me. I love the egg yolk but was under this impression it's not good to eat while trying to lose weight. Hmmmmmmm..... 0 -
I don't like yolk in my omelets or scrambled eggs. I don't know why, I just don't like the way it tastes as much.
If I fry my egg, I like the yolk a lot.
For me, it's just a taste preference thing.0 -
Although I don't eat ground beef anymore due to the fat. I haven't eaten a egg yolk either. However, this forum is making me feel like I can. Which would make a huge difference for me. I love the egg yolk but was under this impression it's not good to eat while trying to lose weight. Hmmmmmmm.....
Ground turkey works out well in place of ground beef (for lower fat and calories). You can also buy the 90% lean ground beef from small family farms (organic, grass fed etc.) The 'happy meat' as we call it in my house is actually better for you overall Vs grain fed beef.
For me personally (healthy cholesterol levels at this point) eating 2 eggs/week with the yolks has not hindered my weight loss. My husband is also at the perfect weight for his height and eats a lot more than 2 eggs/week. It's different for every person though...0 -
Somewhere in the world, a baby is born every 1.7
seconds. This means, that in the time it takes to fry an egg in
a conventional frying pan, over 137 babies have been born.
Unless you like your egg really crispy and golden brown on the
outside like I do, in which case you could have over 200 really
crispy, fried babies. Or, if you're cooking on gas, about 194.
An important lesson for us all there I think
Eat babies not eggs?
Cuz that's what I read.
mmmmm BBQ covered baby *drool*0 -
I'm (mostly) vegetarian, so I have very little cholesterol in my diet. I eat 2 egg omelets around once a week. The cholesterol doesn't make me bat an eye.
I used to not like the yolks all that much. They would taste weird to me. But we switched to organic, vegetarian fed, cage free eggs (long name!), and I can really tell a marked difference in yolk quality. The yolks are darker, more of a deep yellow instead of that neon yellow that I thought was normal.0 -
Aside from my cholesterol being super high (like over 300mg last time it was measured), I don't like the texture of yolks, no matter how they are cooked.0
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I'm kind of confused about the people trying to convince everyone we should be eating yolks if we don't want to ...
Really? It happens all the time on these boards. Try posting that you don't eat greek yogurt and see what happens. It's as if you've said you don't like puppies or support terrorism.
Thanks! The Greek yogurt thing really made me laugh! LOL0 -
I used to not like the yolks all that much. They would taste weird to me. But we switched to organic, vegetarian fed, cage free eggs (long name!), and I can really tell a marked difference in yolk quality. The yolks are darker, more of a deep yellow instead of that neon yellow that I thought was normal.
Agreed! 0 -
A lot of people choose to avoid the yolk because it is higher in calories than the whites, and it is higher in cholesterol.
HOWEVER, if you buy eggs from pastured chickens, the chemical make up of the egg is different than an egg from a chicken who was cooped up, caged, and only fed a comercial feed. This is also true of "organic" eggs. While organic eggs are a little better than commercial eggs, they are still from chickens given a feed, it was just an organic feed.
If you are buying eggs from pastured chickens, those eggs are higher in good cholesterol and omega fats, and lower in bad cholesterol than "conventional" eggs.
Even better than store bought pastured eggs, would be local farm eggs. Eggs in the grocery store have sat in storage for up to 6 weeks before being delivered to the grocery store. In addition, they are washed with a chemical wash to get rid of germs. However, when these eggs are "washed" the chemicals actually weaken the shell of it's natural protection, allowing germs to actually GET INTO the egg, thus defeating the purpose of the wash to begin with.
Another interesting fact... eggs from pastured chickens, have a MUCH MUCH lower risk of salmonella than conventional eggs... Why you ask???? I'm glad you asked :giggle:
Chickens are not meant to eat solely grains. They are designed (by God, or nature, whichever you prefer) to eat veggies, bugs, caterpillars, and other creepy crawlers. When you alter their natural diet and give them ONLY grains.. it upsets their digestive tract. Just as with people, chickens not eating a healthy diet are less likely to be healthy. Their immune systems are compromised.
Also, conventional chickens are cooped up in over crowded chicken coops, so if one gets sick, they all get sick due to the close proximity and all the fecal matter around.
So.. in short. If you buy eggs that come from pastured chickens who are only supplimented feed (no feed is best but that's EXTREMELY difficult to find), it's ok to eat the yolks.
In addition.. when people only eat egg whites, they are loosing out on most of the protein that eggs offer.. and most of the other nutrients are also found in the yolk.
God bless!0 -
I'm kind of confused about the people trying to convince everyone we should be eating yolks if we don't want to ...
Really? It happens all the time on these boards. Try posting that you don't eat greek yogurt and see what happens. It's as if you've said you don't like puppies or support terrorism.
Reported for saying that you do not eat greek yogurt.0 -
I'm only allowed so much fat per day and I'd rather use it up with cheese.0
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It is immoral to eat something that could have been a lifeform. Would you eat an aborted fetus?
Yes. Sunny side up... and raw
Would the danger of a raw fetus be salmonella or e. coli?0 -
The yolk is great for you, but is heavy in fat. This is good for you almost all of the time, except right after a workout and right before bed, which are the two times that I eat egg whites without the yolks.
If you eat fat right after a workout, it will slow your body's absorption of the protein you eat, thus forcing your body to consume its own protein (muscles) for energy, this is referred to as your body entering a catabolic state. In order to stay in an anabolic state (body producing muscle, rather than consuming it), you must eat an easily absorbed protein after your workout. This will allow your muscles to regenerate and grow. Muscles are the main consumer of calories, so the more muscle you have, the more fat you will burn (muscles burn fat while at rest).
As for the before bed fat, eating fat before bed will trick your body into thinking that it is in a time of abundance, and will make it store fat, in preparation for a time period in which there is a lack of food (the body's natural survival mechanism). This causes your body to get its energy from protein and carbs, rather than fat, which is what you want your body to get its energy from when you're trying to lose weight (reduce your body's stored energy).
Timing your nutrients is almost as important as eating healthy and exercising. If you eat different things at different times during the day, according to your activities, you use your nutrients extremely efficiently, and can trick your body into working for you, rather that having to fight against your body to achieve your goals. I was losing weight at an okay rate, but also losing muscle, and not in the best of health because of this, and not really losing weight in the right way. Once i started timing my nutrients, my muscle gains and fat loss rates went through the roof. Now I am a guy, so I'm sure you're saying yeah well I don't want muscles...Well you can have super lean muscles, and not look muscular as a woman at all. My girlfriend has accompanied me through this whole journey, and had the same worries. She follows the same rules as me, and by avoiding strength training, and eating as she should (not packing heavy calories like me), she has seen drastic improvements without any negative side effects, such as too much muscularity. The idea is to just increase skeletal muscles, in order to increase metabolism.
Hope this helps. I lost 115 lbs in about 9 months, so it works.0 -
I have about 4 eggs a day with the yolks to help get my protein and fat in for weightlifting. A lot of the data about food consumption and its effects on the body is outdated and only continued on due to the general lack of public knowledge on the subject. Example here would be Coconut Oil. It was pretty much public enemy number 1 when it was found to have caused higher cholesterol in rabbits. But it turns out that oil was partially hydrogenated purposefully to increase the rabbits cholesterol for testing. 10 years later Coconut Oil has actually become a health food with many benefits over standard oils.
With that said here is an article on a recent egg study: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7882850.stm
Most RD's are required to "study" all the latest studies, and they have very credible resources to back up their recommendations. I'm a personal trainer, and I have to stay up on all the latest exercise information, but it always amazes me that people think they know more because they heard it or read it on a study. Science evolves, and yes sometimes things are found new, but I will rely on my RD"s PERSONAL recommendations for me. In the same way, I hope my clients rely on the PERSONAL recommendations I make for them.
That's like saying doctors are required to "study" all of the latest drugs that are on the market, when in truth many just go with what has worked for years. As a PT you probably see this everyday. Your clients who have had other PT's in the past have wild exercises that had them squatting on a ball or other things that run more chances of risk than benefit. Then there is the constant debate between 3x8, 5/3/1, 5x5 etc. for muscle development that every trainer has his/her own opinion of. Many RD's as well as PT's (and people in general) have a way in there head that is "Right" and everything else is not. It really depends on who taught them. Learn eggs are bad, you will always think eggs are bad or at least hold some degree of skepticism towards them.
My post was really just to show that things change and we never know the full story, especially if we don't look into it ourselves and just go off hearsay. For me eating the entire egg works with my life style and has no visible negative effects on my cholesterol. From this I can validate my PERSONAL claim that eating eggs is beneficial to me and provides me with nutrients that allow me to progress my healthy & fit lifestyle. Although if my cholesterol had gone up in recent months I might be tooting a different horn & change my PERSONAL recommendations.0 -
The type of fat you eat does matter, in a huge way. Replacing healthy egg fats with extremely unhealthy cheese fats (cheese is FULL of sugars too) is doing much much much more harm than good.0
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The yolk is great for you, but is heavy in fat. This is good for you almost all of the time, except right after a workout and right before bed, which are the two times that I eat egg whites without the yolks.
If you eat fat right after a workout, it will slow your body's absorption of the protein you eat, thus forcing your body to consume its own protein (muscles) for energy, this is referred to as your body entering a catabolic state. In order to stay in an anabolic state (body producing muscle, rather than consuming it), you must eat an easily absorbed protein after your workout. This will allow your muscles to regenerate and grow. Muscles are the main consumer of calories, so the more muscle you have, the more fat you will burn (muscles burn fat while at rest).
As for the before bed fat, eating fat before bed will trick your body into thinking that it is in a time of abundance, and will make it store fat, in preparation for a time period in which there is a lack of food (the body's natural survival mechanism). This causes your body to get its energy from protein and carbs, rather than fat, which is what you want your body to get its energy from when you're trying to lose weight (reduce your body's stored energy).
Timing your nutrients is almost as important as eating healthy and exercising. If you eat different things at different times during the day, according to your activities, you use your nutrients extremely efficiently, and can trick your body into working for you, rather that having to fight against your body to achieve your goals. I was losing weight at an okay rate, but also losing muscle, and not in the best of health because of this, and not really losing weight in the right way. Once i started timing my nutrients, my muscle gains and fat loss rates went through the roof. Now I am a guy, so I'm sure you're saying yeah well I don't want muscles...Well you can have super lean muscles, and not look muscular as a woman at all. My girlfriend has accompanied me through this whole journey, and had the same worries. She follows the same rules as me, and by avoiding strength training, and eating as she should (not packing heavy calories like me), she has seen drastic improvements without any negative side effects, such as too much muscularity. The idea is to just increase skeletal muscles, in order to increase metabolism.
Hope this helps. I lost 115 lbs in about 9 months, so it works.
Another example of nutrient timing is the use of simple sugars after/during a hard workout to spike insulin (one of the few times insulin spikes are good) allowing your body to fight off muscle loss from Cortisol build up during your session.0 -
It is immoral to eat something that could have been a lifeform. Would you eat an aborted fetus?
Yes. Sunny side up... and raw
Would the danger of a raw fetus be salmonella or e. coli?
Depends on whether it was dropped in poop.0 -
Wow!!! Way to get way off subject from the OP's question!
Oh and I have been enjoying a huge omelet while I was reading all of this, and yes it had all the yummy goodness of the yolk in it!!!
P.S. My wife raises chickens, and you can still eat the egg after it has been fertilized, you just have to get them out of the nest and in the fridge within a reasonable amount of time. If you have ever been around chickens, or stayed awake in biology, you know the hen will lay for about a week to 10 days before she starts sitting, the fertilized egg doesn't start forming a chick until the temperature is raised and kept constant by the hen sitting. Oh and I think someone already said it, nothing against a vegetarian, but if we as a people only ate plants, how long do you think it would take before the human race was overwhelmed with all the animals? Someone knew what he was doing when he created all this! Just sayin'!0
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