Are eggs good for you 🤔

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  • Sakura_Tree
    Sakura_Tree Posts: 142 Member
    Cholesterol is essential for good health. Eggs are one of the best things you can consume.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Sakura_Tree wrote: »
    Cholesterol is essential for good health. Eggs are one of the best things you can consume.

    Cholesterol is essential, but an important point is that our livers can produce all that we need even if we don't consume it.

  • VeryKatie
    VeryKatie Posts: 5,961 Member
    yes. They are for most people. Dietary cholesterol is not the same as blood cholesterol.
  • Treblesmama
    Treblesmama Posts: 11 Member
    maggiepz wrote: »
    I was on a keto diet a few years ago for 3 months. Ate 3 eggs a day and my bad cholesterol plummeted and my good cholsterol elevated. My Vit D climbed to normal instead of having a severe deficiency. I'm going back on that diet again!

    I've been following a mostly animal based diet for a couple years now and eggs are a staple for me. My cholesterol numbers are excellent and my heart disease risk ratio is very low. I've had numerous conversations with my doctor about my 'unique' way of eating and she's very supportive of it, based on my numbers/health :smile:
  • LunaTheFatCat
    LunaTheFatCat Posts: 237 Member
    I would eat eggs on a near daily basis. They better be good for me, as I have no intention on giving up on them.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,831 Member
    edited October 2020
    psuLemon wrote: »
    As a reference, an 8 oz glass of water has 40mg os sodium. Sodium is in almost everything. It's an electrolyte and super important to health.

    40 mg/8 oz. glass is equivalent to about 170mg/liter which seems a bit high to me so I decided to "read up" on it.

    Pure water doesn't have any sodium in it. Softened water and some bottled waters can have a lot of sodium in it. The EPA recommends that tap water (whether well or public supply) have 20 or fewer mg/liter for those on a low sodium diet. To not taste salty or otherwise unpleasant, the US EPA says tap water should have a maximum of between 30 and 60 mg/liter of sodium although the WHO says sodium can go up to 200 mg/liter before taste is definitely unpleasant. By contrast, sodium in sea water is about 30,000 mg/liter but the Mississippi River is only about 20 mg/liter. https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-09/documents/support_cc1_sodium_dwreport.pdf



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