Eggs - good or bad for you?

most will say the egg white are great try limit the amount of the yolks u eat as the cals are in the yolk so egg whits omeleets and such are fine but i am no expert sure some ppl will say lots diff to me

I eat eggs i like them ,yolk and all .

They say if you want to watch your cholesterol from eggs, to eat no more than 4 whole eggs a week. If you eat whites, you’re ok. The yolk is where most of the cholesterol (and calories) are.

Overall, I think it really depends on your own cholesterol (if it's low or high). I definitely eat more than 4 whole eggs a week!

Eggs are good for you.

Yes the yokes have more calories in but if you plan them as part of your daily intake they are fine.

The cholesterol issue is not one am going to wade into as there are many schools of thought on this, but if i'm eating eggs I eat yolks as well otherwise it is a waste of something perfectly edible, and too much perfectly good food gets wasted, particularly in uk and usa

Love eggs! Even have my own chickens I eat them all the time I get most of my protein from them.

I eat more than a dozen eggs a week. Some weeks approaching 18. This week we have duck eggs - they're monsters, so I won't have as many. We have boiled eggs as snacks, or eggs at breakfast - poached, scrambled, omlettefied or in pancakes. You don't feel hungry after eggs at breakfast. We've bought egg whites in a carton in the past to better balance out the protein / fat macros, but we don't have any at the moment. I'm not scared of that cholesterol number!

I love eggs .........

2 Every morning poached for breakfast.
Sometimes I'll have a couple of hardboiled eggs with lunch and if I don't, I'll probably have an omelette for dinner.

Personally I probably consume 25-30 eggs per week.

All foods are good in some way, and all foods are bad in exess. It's all about balance.

Anyways, the thing people say negatively about eggs is the colesterol, because yes, it has a good bit of that, both LDL and HDL - HDL transports LDL to the liver, so if you don't have enough HDL, all the LDL will mess around in your blood, and if they are small enough, they can cause some havoc if you have way too many.

So eggs have a lot of the LDL, but because they also have a lot of HDL, they make sure not to leave too much of the LDL hanging around in your blood. And, eggs can actually make some of you LDL bigger, so it can't enter your artery walls, which is where they can cause trouble.

So unless you know you have to watch your cholesterol, I wouldn't worry about enjoying your omelets

Eggs are very good for you! I eat about 6 a day.

They are good for you. I eat 4 whole eggs everyday.

Eggs are AWESOME. I don't eat a lot of meat. I eat one whole egg every day. Sometimes two. I just had my biometric screening and I can report that my total cholesterol is 152 (amazing!) and my HDL (good) is 60 and my LDL (bad) is 67.

So unless you have a directive from your doctor to avoid the eggs, I wouldn't.

The yolk is where most of the nutrients live. However, it is where the calories live as well. If you're worried about hitting your calories, switch to egg whites. OR make an omelet that is one egg and the remainder whites. Whatever works for you. But do not fear the egg. It is truly an incredible food.

I would never classify any food as good or bad but eggs are good. :happy:

I raise my own also.

I was eating egg whites every morning and had my cholesterol under control. My MD told me I could start eating the whole egg that it shouldn't effect my cholesterol that it was all in how they were made. Needless to say after 3 months of 2 eggs 5 days a week my cholesterol doubled and triglycerides were thru the roof. Stopped eating the yolk and started a fish oil twice a day and everything has normalized. I will watch eating egg yolks forever now that I know the effect it had on my body. I would watch eating the yolks if you are prone to high cholesterol.

I was eating egg whites every morning and had my cholesterol under control. My MD told me I could start eating the whole egg that it shouldn't effect my cholesterol that it was all in how they were made. Needless to say after 3 months of 2 eggs 5 days a week my cholesterol doubled and triglycerides were thru the roof. Stopped eating the yolk and started a fish oil twice a day and everything has normalized. I will watch eating egg yolks forever now that I know the effect it had on my body. I would watch eating the yolks if you are prone to high cholesterol.

That is exceedingly rare? Are you sure you didn't change anything else. Dietary cholesterol in general has proven to have little bearing on blood serum levels in the vast majority of people. I would suggest you have a medical condition that otherwise causes your body to absorb more cholesterol than the vast majority of people.

I had soaring cholesterol levels a couple of years ago and very low HDL and triglycerides around 500. I eat two eggs daily....all is normal. Study after study after study indicates that dietary cholesterol really has no bearing on blood serum levels so I wouldn't give just blanket advice as to not eat eggs if you have cholesterol issues. For many, it will raise their HDL levels if anything.

Ie egs!!! Yolk and all.............so good for you! eat up!