Is it safe to eat 2 eggs everyday?

Um, I never saw this post until now, but jokingly my status was about eating 12 eggs in one day this week a few days' back...yes indeed. I eat 6 every day in any case and one day I ate 2 lots, forgetting about the first in the morning...I am still here and I am sure eggs are as good as any food source for lots of needed nutrients... : )

No, centenarians never ate eggs. People that say 1 egg a day is fine but eating 2 will increase risk are thinking illogically.....the obvious answer is don't eat any and you eliminate that risk......wasn't that easy and logical.

Lets face it, it's the 300 or 400mg's in the eggs that will kill us and not the 35,000 or 40,000mg's we have naturally circulating in our body and any given time....those damn pesky eggs that have that big bulls eye for the nutritionally challenged to target, easy peasy.

What if the risk is not caused by cholesterol but by something else? I'll admit I haven't read a lot of egg research because I don't care for eggs enough to eat them often. But of the research I've seen that tied eggs to increased incidence of heart disease, it didn't specifically tie cholesterol to the same risk.

Lets see, over the last 30 years going back to the low fat diet era it was either cholesterol and saturated fat that was seen as the problem. If it's not cholesterol then it's saturated fat. The argument against saturated fat is that it raises LDL cholesterol, simple, and people don't have to think or even research because "they" say so, so it must be true or maybe your talking about trptophan, selenium, iodine, b vitamins, vitamin D, or phosphorus in eggs that are harmful. Maybe it's the cloline in eggs being so prevalent are causing the problem, nah, that can't be right..........it's probably that 1.5g's of saturated fat in an egg, yeah that's the guy, it will kill us all. But wait, there's more saturated fat in a serving of salmon or almost the same as an oz of almonds, and an avocado has twice as much saturated fat as an egg. lol.

Or that it's neither and actually not caused by cholesterol or saturated fat. That systemic inflammation and lipids are the cause.

The Framington Heart Study followed the dietary habits of 15,000 participants over three generations. The longest most comprehensive epidemiological assessment in medical history (started I'm 1948). Dr Castelli summarised this issue "serum cholesterol is not a strong risk for coronary heart disease)". It found that there is no correlation between dietary cholesterol intake and blood cholesterol levels. Framington residents who ate the most cholesterol, saturated fat, and total calories actually weighed the least and were the most physically active.

Aren't lipids fats? That was my understanding of them.

Yes but not dietary fat, it has many processes in the body one of which is carrying cholesterol. This excerpt explains it better than I can:

Ironically, it turns out that it’s not the cholesterol part of the LDL or HDL moiety that is dangerous, but the actual lipoprotein part. Unfortunately, once medicine had found a way to differentiate between the amount of HDL and LDL in a cost-effective blood test, it was the cholesterol part that got the short end of the deal.

The latest research into LDL shows that there are actually sub-categories of this cholesterol transporter and that some are more dangerous than others. The larger, more billowy LDL particles are now thought to have little or no significant role in heart disease. On the other hand, the smaller, dense LDL particles are the ones believed to be most involved in the process of inflammation that begins the atherosclerosis cascade. And wouldn’t you know it, but it’s a diet high in simple carbs that most readily promotes the formation of these small LDL particles! Unfortunately, this important distinction is probably something your doctor knows very little about, yet it’s the number of small particle LDL that might be the most important reading in any cholesterol test. So a total cholesterol of, say, 230 or even 250 might not be dangerous at all if your HDL is high and your small particle LDL is low.

Okay, okay, first of all. Yes, it's fine.
Second of all, there is actually no evidence relating dietary cholesterol related to higher blood cholesterol levels.
Usually, those who have excess fat, and have a poor diet have high cholesterol. Presumably, you either aren't, or are working on that. That's what the site is for, right?

"There are two types of cholesterol: high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, the “good” cholesterol, and low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, the “bad” kind. Having low levels of HDL and high levels of LDL cholesterol may put you at risk for heart disease and stroke. A large egg contains a full 212 mg of cholesterol. However, recent studies show that eating eggs does not contribute to heart disease in adults with no history of cholesterol problems. A report published in the January 2006 issue of “Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care” concluded that egg consumption had no effect on blood cholesterol in 70 percent of the population."

I eat 4 yumm My blood was just taken and my doctor said I have really amazing cholesterol. Better than she has seen in a long time.

I can't eat enough eggs. I ate devilled eggs every morning until I got tired of them, then scrambled (2-3 whites, 1-2 yolks), plus egg whites in all my salads. LOVE eggs!

I never look at cholesterol. I suppose I should, if only to know whether it is spelled like that or with an 'a.' Cholesteral? Whatever.

Eggs rock.

No, centenarians never ate eggs. People that say 1 egg a day is fine but eating 2 will increase risk are thinking illogically.....the obvious answer is don't eat any and you eliminate that risk......wasn't that easy and logical.

Lets face it, it's the 300 or 400mg's in the eggs that will kill us and not the 35,000 or 40,000mg's we have naturally circulating in our body and any given time....those damn pesky eggs that have that big bulls eye for the nutritionally challenged to target, easy peasy.

What if the risk is not caused by cholesterol but by something else? I'll admit I haven't read a lot of egg research because I don't care for eggs enough to eat them often. But of the research I've seen that tied eggs to increased incidence of heart disease, it didn't specifically tie cholesterol to the same risk.

Lets see, over the last 30 years going back to the low fat diet era it was either cholesterol and saturated fat that was seen as the problem. If it's not cholesterol then it's saturated fat. The argument against saturated fat is that it raises LDL cholesterol, simple, and people don't have to think or even research because "they" say so, so it must be true or maybe your talking about trptophan, selenium, iodine, b vitamins, vitamin D, or phosphorus in eggs that are harmful. Maybe it's the cloline in eggs being so prevalent are causing the problem, nah, that can't be right..........it's probably that 1.5g's of saturated fat in an egg, yeah that's the guy, it will kill us all. But wait, there's more saturated fat in a serving of salmon or almost the same as an oz of almonds, and an avocado has twice as much saturated fat as an egg. lol.

Or that it's neither and actually not caused by cholesterol or saturated fat. That systemic inflammation and lipids are the cause.

The Framington Heart Study followed the dietary habits of 15,000 participants over three generations. The longest most comprehensive epidemiological assessment in medical history (started I'm 1948). Dr Castelli summarised this issue "serum cholesterol is not a strong risk for coronary heart disease)". It found that there is no correlation between dietary cholesterol intake and blood cholesterol levels. Framington residents who ate the most cholesterol, saturated fat, and total calories actually weighed the least and were the most physically active.

Aren't lipids fats? That was my understanding of them.

Yes but not dietary fat, it has many processes in the body one of which is carrying cholesterol. This excerpt explains it better than I can:

Ironically, it turns out that it’s not the cholesterol part of the LDL or HDL moiety that is dangerous, but the actual lipoprotein part. Unfortunately, once medicine had found a way to differentiate between the amount of HDL and LDL in a cost-effective blood test, it was the cholesterol part that got the short end of the deal.

The latest research into LDL shows that there are actually sub-categories of this cholesterol transporter and that some are more dangerous than others. The larger, more billowy LDL particles are now thought to have little or no significant role in heart disease. On the other hand, the smaller, dense LDL particles are the ones believed to be most involved in the process of inflammation that begins the atherosclerosis cascade. And wouldn’t you know it, but it’s a diet high in simple carbs that most readily promotes the formation of these small LDL particles! Unfortunately, this important distinction is probably something your doctor knows very little about, yet it’s the number of small particle LDL that might be the most important reading in any cholesterol test. So a total cholesterol of, say, 230 or even 250 might not be dangerous at all if your HDL is high and your small particle LDL is low.

edited for innaccuracy

When we were kids we colored eggs for Easter and left a basket of them on the table, ate them for week and all of us lived!:laugh:

Nothing wrong with eating eggs every day. I eat 3 almost every morning with 2 strips of bacon. I found this article helpful in debunking most of the egg scare myths:

http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2012/08/23/more-on-the-egg-yolk-study/

I eat eggs everyday with no problems, but only eat 1 yolk a day

Dan

If you are referring to the cholesterol than yes it's safe. From what I've read, eating cholesterol doesn't raise your cholesterol. Excess simple carbs and too much sugar is typically the culprit.

Even Dr OZ has changed his tune about cholesterol. Your bodies cholesterol is not determined by your dietary cholesterol intake despite what the AHA has been saying.

Dr. OZ: The Doctors Who Say Everything You Know About Cholesterol Is Wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swrKkwlnSnI&list=WL65ED074376F6842C

I'm broke this week and might end up eating nothing but eggs most days. I'll let you know if I die or turn into a chicken.

Also, done this before plenty of times, never killed me yet.

I'm going to bet that you will die eventually. The question isn't whether eating eggs today will kill you today, which is unlikely unless you choke on them. The question is whether eating too many eggs will cause you to die earlier than if you didn't eat them.

"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."

i will not cut anything out of my diet...

I have 4 egg whites every morning. I haven't had any issues.

I ate 4 today...and damn...they were YUMMMMY!:bigsmile:

Make sure to get rid of the shells before you eat them