Eggs... How many??

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  • ansy96
    ansy96 Posts: 55
    so I have a question abut the macros...MFP has my colesterol goal set at 300 a day...when I eat two eggs it goes over after just that one meal. So I have cut back to one a day trying to stay under my macros...is it not a bad thing to go over on it if it is good fats and how can you keep up with what you ate that was "good" and what was "not good" ?


    I do not trust MFP for cholesterol because it can't distinguish the good cholesterol or sugar from the bad ones. If you have doubts of your cholesterol, better do some analyses :)
  • hpsnickers1
    hpsnickers1 Posts: 2,783 Member
    Eggs are the perfect health food. What is an egg but a baby that has no access to Mama's nutrition (of course the eggs we eat aren't fertilized) And the main components in an egg are protein, saturated fat, and cholesterol. The three most important ingredients for a healthy baby. Mother nature did not get it wrong.

    Cholesterol is critical to life (google Cholesterol Myths). Saturated fat is the most stable and healthiest fat out there (especially for women. We are fetus bearing organisms. That fat protects our reproductive system). Our body makes more cholesterol than we eat. Our body stores the majority of our fatty tissue as saturated (because it is the most stable) and converts most of the carbs we eat to saturated fatty acids.

    Eat as many as you want. The more cholesterol you eat, the less your body has to make. That is the only connection between dietary and serum cholesterol (the brain is 20% cholesterol by weight). Cholesterol is needed for our body to turn sunlight into vitamin D. Every cell in our body can make cholesterol.

    Cholesterol range for lowest All-Cause Mortality for women (based on statin trials): 250-300mg/dl
    Cholesterol range for lowest All-Cause mortaltiy for men (based on statin trials): 200-250mg/dl
    (That's the real data - not what you hear from BigPharma and mainstream median. Read The Great Cholesterol Con and The Cholesterol Delusion)
    There's only one group that benefit from statins (and not because they lower cholesterol. They do the same thing as a low-dose aspirin regimen) and that's middle-aged men with heart disease)
    In fact, in the trial done on Lipitor a few more people in the treatment group died due to cancers.
    And the lower the cholesterol level the ever more likely people would succumb to heart disease. (People that died of heart disease had high, normal, and low levels.)

    In fact, my breakfast this morning is 4 perfectly hard-boiled local pastured eggs (no greenish tint on the yolk) and 4 pieces of Hormel Uncured Bacon. I'm 5'2" and 110lbs. And I fight to stay at or above 110lbs by eating high-fat.

    Every last piece of "evidence" regarding cholesterol and saturated fat and it's supposed effects on the heart and arteries has been debunked. The statin companies just don't want to the word to get out. If it does, they are out billions of dollars. (Our health is a business soon to be a corporation).

    And there's no such thing as good or bad cholesterol. You cannot have a cholesterol level.
    Saturated fat plays no part in the synthesis of cholesterol (cholesterol is the body's "duct tape". If we are producing a lot of it there is a reason for it and you don't fix it by stopping your body from producing it).
  • paul1batler
    paul1batler Posts: 10 Member
    Found this only today so i have copied for you , your in luck its ok to eat them as you have been doing , enjoy
    Paul
    How Many Eggs
    By Dietitian, Juliette Kellow BSc RD

    Last month, Diet Bytes reported on a study that suggested eating eggs for breakfast helps to reduce calorie intakes throughout the rest of the day so that weight loss is achieved more easily. The story created lots of interest with many of you saying you’d started going to work on an egg – and better still, found that it helped keep hunger at bay until lunchtime.

    But it also highlighted that many of us are still confused about how many eggs we should eat each week and are concerned about their cholesterol content. So this month, we give the low-down on one of our favourite breakfasts. We think you’ll agree it’s eggs-cellent news!

    As many members pointed out, together with liver, kidney and prawns, eggs do contain more dietary cholesterol than many other foods. It was for this reason that past advice focussed on limiting intakes of these foods if you had high blood cholesterol. And as eggs tend to be eaten more frequently than liver, kidney or prawns, they were particularly thrown into the spotlight when it came to advising people to cut down on cholesterol-containing foods.

    However, thanks to more recent research, we now know the cholesterol in food has little effect on our blood cholesterol levels. What really affects blood cholesterol is the amount of saturated fat we eat. This means if you need to lower your cholesterol, the most important thing you can do is cut down on the amount of foods you eat that contain saturates, such as fatty meats, full-fat milk, butter, lard, cream, pastry, cakes and biscuits. Eating more fruit, vegetables and foods such as oats and pulses, which contain a type of fibre called soluble fibre can also help to lower cholesterol.

    Thanks to this newfound knowledge, the Food Standards Agency doesn’t recommend limiting the number of eggs you eat, unless your GP or a dietitian has specifically advised you to do this. This is great news for slimmers as eggs contain just 85 calories each but are packed with nutrients including protein, zinc, iron, iodine and vitamins A, D, E and some B vitamins
  • Ccd1977
    Ccd1977 Posts: 7 Member
    The FDA loves to restrict your intake of good nutrition. Just look at the daily recommended value of Vit. C. Just barely enough to stop scurvey.
  • Easywider
    Easywider Posts: 434 Member
    7.5 dozen a week.

    Cholesterol woes are for the weak.
  • dr3wman
    dr3wman Posts: 205
    I have about 14 egg yolks and 14 egg whites a week. Recently got my cholesterol checked and they said it was the best they have ever seen!
  • TheVimFuego
    TheVimFuego Posts: 2,412 Member
    To echo hpsnickers1,

    'High' Cholesterol is not a predictor for heart disease and dietary cholesterol has no effect on blood serum cholesterol anyway.

    Don't take my word for it, research the science!
  • Lyerin
    Lyerin Posts: 818 Member
    I eat a dozen or so a week. I normally have 2 hard boiled eggs for breakfast on most weekdays. I love eggs!
  • Espressocycle
    Espressocycle Posts: 2,245 Member
    As many as you want. The dietary cholesterol/blood cholesterol link has been overstated - total health and genetics play much larger roles.
  • Adara13
    Adara13 Posts: 50
    Wow!!, that you all and the person who posted the article! My dad has bad cholesterol and it's very much a genetic thing. ( I 'm adopted) and I do have mine tested. Never had a worry!! Will definitely be eating a lot more eggs! And with the low calorie count.... Smiling all the way
  • exacerbe
    exacerbe Posts: 447 Member
    I eat about a dozen a week. BUT they have to be organic, free range eggs. Otherwise, they hurt my stomach for some reason (was once allergic to egg yolks).
  • StormyGal8
    StormyGal8 Posts: 184 Member
    My doctor says to only eat about 4 eggs a week. I trust her implicitly, however I disregard this 1 piece of advice. I love eggs, I believe they are filling and healthy, so I eat eggs whenever I like.

    (I have no cholesterol problems, so i think she is just being cautious with her egg advice).
  • MikeInAZ
    MikeInAZ Posts: 483 Member
    I'm not big on just egg whites. So I will do 1 egg and 2 whites, with a lot of veggies!! It's very filling and only about 100 calories, little fat and cholesterol.
  • T34418l3angel
    T34418l3angel Posts: 474 Member
    I've never liked the taste of yolk anyway, so to me I have about 5 eggwhites scrambled, I mix in some turkey bacon or turkey sausage or chicken, cilantro, onions, pepper, and tomatoes, occasionally avocado or jalapeno. I have this almost every day!
  • GnochhiGnomes
    GnochhiGnomes Posts: 348 Member
    I had two fried eggs today. They were delicious. If I had more than two in the house I would of probably made a egg-white omelette (with one yolk) and turkey ham.
  • Sappy320
    Sappy320 Posts: 77 Member
    I eat close to a dozen eggs a week myself, but i usually go half whites, half whole egg because of the fat content.
  • Elen_Sia
    Elen_Sia Posts: 638 Member
    Currently wolfing down 4 complete eggs a day. Love them.
  • RushBabe214
    RushBabe214 Posts: 469 Member
    I eat 2 or 3 a day. Every day. Love eggs!!!
  • Btmartin54
    Btmartin54 Posts: 69 Member
    As many as you want. Eggs are full of great nutrition. They are also a nice low cal snack. All the "studies" used to say eggs were too high in cholesterol and you should watch your cholesterol intake. Now all the studies are saying "oops, we were wrong" the cholesterol in eggs is not bad for you.

    Agree

    NHS Link : http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/02February/Pages/Eggsafety.aspx

    So glad to read this...just looked at my total cholesterol for today and thought I was going to have to replace my favorite cheap snack. :smile:
  • sjohnny
    sjohnny Posts: 56,142 Member
    I eat two or three a day.

    For ten years my cholesterol had been problematic and my doctor has been telling me to start taking lipitor and I've been declining to get the prescription filled. In July of last year I started this whole eating right and working out thing and started eating two or three eggs almost every day - whole eggs. In October I had my lipids checked and they were perfect.

    I scramble eggs with baby spinach to take to work for lunch almost every day. I love it and never get sick of it.
  • graelwyn
    graelwyn Posts: 1,340 Member
    I eat 1 or 2 a day, both duck and chicken eggs. Duck eggs are bigger and almost double the cholesterol of chicken eggs, but I don't care, they are so filling, and to me taste much nicer than chicken eggs.
  • nannabannana
    nannabannana Posts: 780
    As many as you want. Eggs are full of great nutrition. They are also a nice low cal snack. All the "studies" used to say eggs were too high in cholesterol and you should watch your cholesterol intake. Now all the studies are saying "oops, we were wrong" the cholesterol in eggs is not bad for you.

    Agree

    NHS Link : http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/02February/Pages/Eggsafety.aspx




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