Eggs - good or bad for you?

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  • cici1028
    cici1028 Posts: 799 Member
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    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.
  • cici1028
    cici1028 Posts: 799 Member
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    .... and after reading this thread, I am excited to eat MORE eggs!! :)
  • mustgetmuscles1
    mustgetmuscles1 Posts: 3,346 Member
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    I would never classify any food as good or bad but eggs are good. :happy:

    I raise my own also.
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  • thatismesammyg
    thatismesammyg Posts: 71 Member
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    Eggs are amazingly good for you! I won't eat the ones from the grocery store though. I like my yolks an orangish-red color. I only eat my chickens' eggs (we have 6 hens currently) or ones from a small, local farm. They taste 100x better than factory farm eggs.
  • aweiser03
    aweiser03 Posts: 21
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    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.
  • NewLeafEats
    NewLeafEats Posts: 37 Member
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    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 don't *have* LDL or HDL. LDL is low density lipoprotein and HDL is high density lipoprotein. These proteins transport cholesterol where they ought to go in the body. Scientific literature shows that eggs have virtually no effect on LDL, while increasing HDL. In cases where LDL does increase, it's marginal, and it's the benign large-particle form.

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    http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.e8539
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22037012
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,867 Member
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    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.
  • ChaplainHeavin
    ChaplainHeavin Posts: 426 Member
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    I've been told I'm a good egg. Love em!
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,049 Member
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    Ie egs!!! Yolk and all.............so good for you! eat up!

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