Eggs: good or bad?

I'm a big fan of eggs. I eat at least 2 a day and my fiance has 4. They really are a superfood in so many ways, especially if you can either raise the chickens yourself or spring for the pasture raised ones (they're like $8 per carton where I live, so we ended up raising our own).

I'm a big fan of eggs. I eat at least 2 a day and my fiance has 4. They really are a superfood in so many ways, especially if you can either raise the chickens yourself or spring for the pasture raised ones (they're like $8 per carton where I live, so we ended up raising our own).

8.00.wow. I get mine right from the farm close to where I live and are 3 bucks.

My farmer delivers me eggs for 1.25 per dozen. Rural livin' I tells ya.

Absolutely HORRIBLE for you. Terrible. Don't ruin your health with evil eggs!

Please send all unused eggs to my house for...disposal. Yeah, yeah disposal.

Fat is a necessary macro. Our body actually needs cholesterol. When cholesterol is a problem in our bodies it's more likely due to high grain/sugar consumption (go research that assertion for yourself if you are so inclined- I don't get paid enough to do it for you). Years and years of low fat diets, and the switch from saturated fats to soy/corn/canola, sure isn't improving obesity and health of the population is it? Quite the opposite.

Our body also produces cholesterol. Dietary intake of cholesterol is not necessary. My diet does not have cholesterol in it, and has not for over a year.

As to your assertion about high grain and sugar consumption, you're the one making the assertion, you should back it up with facts. I eat a diet high in carbohydrates, (including lots of whole grains) and I lost over 170 pounds in a year. Perhaps the problem is more around eating excessive amounts of processed junk food? Perhaps the problem is eating to meet cravings rather than the nutritional needs of our bodies?

Generally a diet high in grains and sugar and where carbs represent a high percentage of total calories will increase triglyceride's, lower HDL increase C-reactive protein and influence the liver to produce cholesterol with small dense particles.......all of which is not ideal. Your probably fine considering your weight loss but I would imagine your HDL is in the cellar. Not consuming cholesterol has nothing to do with reducing cholesterol in the blood, that is dictated by lifestyle and genetics.

http://www.veganhealth.org/articles/dxmarkers

According to EPIC-Oxford and several other studies vegans have comparable HDL cholesterol and lower LDL cholesterol.

I love eggs, but can't eat them due to digestive issues.

Eggs are high in protein and nutrients. Eat it all, the egg whites only thing is silly.

We go through about 3 dozen a week for the 2 of us. A combination off egg whites and full eggs. Love them! Always free range too.

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Also how about egg whites? Egg beaters? I want to know since I like to eat egg whites or beaters, whatever I have around, but some people say that I should eat the whole egg. What bothers me is that they are 60% fat, and loaded with cholesterol...

Can you explain why fat is bad and why cholesterol is bad?

Two whole eggs every morning for breakfast! SOOO Good!!

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i eat four eggs a day and have no issues..blood work always comes back near perfect at my annual physical.

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You should also consider that most diet-related diseases manifest themselves later in life for most people. Heart disease is our #1 killer and most people don't suffer noticeably from it at a young age.

My point is that you seem to be relatively young, and your health at a young age is not necessarily an indicator of what it could be later in life.

Yes and some diseases that manifest themselves later in life are dependent on what are genetically predisposed to.

You are claiming dietary cholesterol is bad for us and unnecessary so i ask you to present all your supporting evidence on the subject. Not a random article or some writings regurgitating outdated ideologies from the 80's.

One thing that is not supporting evidence of what we know is not the amount of weight we lost. Many people around here have lost plenty of weight. I see you've lost a great amount of weight but that doesn't mean your beliefs are automatically correct.

I didn't make that claim, so I don't feel the need to prove it to you. If you're really interested, you can check out this resource citing studies on disease markers, though:

http://www.veganhealth.org/articles/dxmarkers

What I did say is that feeling healthy at a young age does not mean you will be healthy at an old age. Not everyone who succumbs to heart disease, diabetes and etc are overweight or obese, although there is a relationship between the two.

I suppose…however, I have been eating eggs like this for a few years now ..and I get my cholesterol and other blood levels checked once a year and it keeps coming back in the near "perfect" area..I would think if something were wrong that it would start to show up on said blood work ….

I felt just fine when I weighed over 360 pounds, I never got sick and felt like I was in good health... I was obese for over a decade.

One day I started getting chest pain under exertion, then I started getting chest pains completely at rest. Then they became severe. That's when I knew I was dying and I had to change. Yes, I was fat, but I think that mostly means I had the good fortune of discovering the damage of my lifestyle while I was still young.

Believe what you guys are going to believe. We all know I'm not going to convince you no matter how compelling my arguments and I am not interested in wasting my time. Just understand that being and feeling healthy now does not mean you will be and feel healthy in your 50's and 60's. Maybe you will, and I hope you do, but our food system is very broken and it literally kills people.

Eggs are the perfect food and have a bad reputation for nothing.