So, are eggs good or bad?

Egg whites are good, yolks have some good in them too, but the bad makes it not worth it.

I've been eating 3 boiled eggs and a hand full of celery stalks for weekday lunch (at work) for the last couple years, chucking the yolk every time (and not worrying if little pieces of it remained). I work out during lunch--mostly weight training--and eat them after the workout. Been doing yearly cholesterol checks, and there isn't a difference in my before-eggs and after-eggs periods.

I started eating the eggs in earnest a couple years ago after reading an article about it. For a month I ate a tonn of eggs, like 12-15 a day, basically every time I'd feel hungry I'd eat one or two (WHITES only btw, no yolk). Lost 10 pounds fast, then it plateaud (plus my focus on the "an-egg-for-hunger-diet" dissipated).

Now that I started MFP calorie counting, I love how small the numeric impact is compared to how "not-hungry" I feel when eating my daily 3x boiled eggs minus yolk. I'm convinced that the key to long term success is finding other foods/groups that have low calorific/high I-feel-like-i-ate-a-bunch foods Eggs fit the bill perfectly, especially if you skip the yolk.

I love eggs...hard boiled especially with a little salt. Plus, they are so versatile and you can do so much with them. My favorite is cheese omelettes, but I usually want more cheese than is good for me!

Hey, I made a long post! Lol.

Anyway, so like 3 whole scrambled eggs are ok for breakfast every morning? That's what I had this morning and it kept me nice and full until snack time.

I compromised on my wekends breakfast (used to be 3 eggs sunny side up), now I use one egg, and use egg-white (comes in boxes like milk) to fill the rest.

Well, there are 70 calories in one large egg. I eat two large hard boiled eggs for breakfast every morning, making it 140 calories. Those calories go a LONG way, though. Those, along with a medium apple, which has lots of fiber, makes for a super filling breakfast. I never feel hungry before noon when I eat this for breakfast. Also, I've found that I lose more weight when I eat eggs for breakfast as opposed to a healthy cereal. I read a study that showed the exact same result. People lost more weight eating eggs in the morning than the group that ate whole grains(same amount of calories).

I have to agree. I tend to feel more full throughout the morning (and less tempted by sweets in the office) if I eat a higher protein and reasonable whole grain meal.

Egg whites are good, yolks have some good in them too, but the bad makes it not worth it.

I've been eating 3 boiled eggs and a hand full of celery stalks for weekday lunch (at work) for the last couple years, chucking the yolk every time (and not worrying if little pieces of it remained). I work out during lunch--mostly weight training--and eat them after the workout. Been doing yearly cholesterol checks, and there isn't a difference in my before-eggs and after-eggs periods.

I started eating the eggs in earnest a couple years ago after reading an article about it. For a month I ate a tonn of eggs, like 12-15 a day, basically every time I'd feel hungry I'd eat one or two (WHITES only btw, no yolk). Lost 10 pounds fast, then it plateaud (plus my focus on the "an-egg-for-hunger-diet" dissipated).

Now that I started MFP calorie counting, I love how small the numeric impact is compared to how "not-hungry" I feel when eating my daily 3x boiled eggs minus yolk. I'm convinced that the key to long term success is finding other foods/groups that have low calorific/high I-feel-like-i-ate-a-bunch foods Eggs fit the bill perfectly, especially if you skip the yolk.

What is the Bad part you refer to in the yolk?

I can't do just egg whites (gross, in my opinion) so I'll mix 2 or 3 whites in with one whole egg.

Good and bad are kind of subjective in the case of the egg. Someone who is looking for the omega 3's and a high punch of protein in a food would say "great! eggs are good for you". And then perhaps someone who is watching their cholesterol or is avoiding things that are higher in fats would say "no no no, stay away from eggs". I really depends on your own nutritional needs and goals, I think. Try the mixing with egg beaters or egg whites thing, try poached eggs or hard boiled eggs. No need to blame the egg for the way it is cooked if you use oil and butter.

I say eggs are GOOD.

Eggs are incredibly good for you.

You can eat as many as you like (calorie allowing).

Full of goodness and tasty with it.

One more thing,

While it is admirable that people make an effort to substantiate claims in a post with a reference, please don't undermine the process by linking a conflict of interest website. When the name of the website is "incredibleegg" and is owned by the American Egg Board, there is a very obvious bias that is not going to do much in terms of scientific substantiation of a claim.

Here is a short article on "egg yolk" from the Mayo Clinic (foreign heads of state pay through the nose to come to it to get themselves treated, that should give a heads up on where it fits as a medical institution):

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol/HQ00608

Egg whites are good, yolks have some good in them too, but the bad makes it not worth it.

I've been eating 3 boiled eggs and a hand full of celery stalks for weekday lunch (at work) for the last couple years, chucking the yolk every time (and not worrying if little pieces of it remained). I work out during lunch--mostly weight training--and eat them after the workout. Been doing yearly cholesterol checks, and there isn't a difference in my before-eggs and after-eggs periods.

I started eating the eggs in earnest a couple years ago after reading an article about it. For a month I ate a tonn of eggs, like 12-15 a day, basically every time I'd feel hungry I'd eat one or two (WHITES only btw, no yolk). Lost 10 pounds fast, then it plateaud (plus my focus on the "an-egg-for-hunger-diet" dissipated).

Now that I started MFP calorie counting, I love how small the numeric impact is compared to how "not-hungry" I feel when eating my daily 3x boiled eggs minus yolk. I'm convinced that the key to long term success is finding other foods/groups that have low calorific/high I-feel-like-i-ate-a-bunch foods Eggs fit the bill perfectly, especially if you skip the yolk.

What is the Bad part you refer to in the yolk?

Ok, I'll use your chart for your convenience:

- calories, 55
- Total fat, 4.5g
- cholesterol 184mg

Well first, your assumption is that fat is bad and that is not true. Fat does not make you fat, nor, based on credible research as I refered to in an earlier post, does dietary cholesterol ahve any relationship to serum cholesterol.

Secondly, if you are going to use the chart give the whole story:
Whole Egg Egg White
Vitamin B12 .45 mg ..03
Folate 24 mg 1 mg
Vitamin D 41 mg 0
Vitamin A 270 mg 0
Vitamin B6 .09 mg 0
Vitamin E .05 mg 0
Selenium 15.4 mg 6.6 mg
Phosphorus 99 mg 5 mg
Iron .88 mg .03 mg
zinc .65 mg .01 mg
Calcium 28 mg 2 mg

A little different than how you misrepresented it. You want the lower calories of an egg white and are willing to sacrifice the rest of the nutrition, help yourself. I'll take all the goodness of the whole food and save on calories elsewhere.

Ps: sorry I cannot get this to format very well.

One more thing,

While it is admirable that people make an effort to substantiate claims in a post with a reference, please don't undermine the process by linking a conflict of interest website. When the name of the website is "incredibleegg" and is owned by the American Egg Board, there is a very obvious bias that is not going to do much in terms of scientific substantiation of a claim.

Here is a short article on "egg yolk" from the Mayo Clinic (foreign heads of state pay through the nose to come to it to get themselves treated, that should give a heads up on where it fits as a medical institution):

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol/HQ00608

Thank you for posting this. People jumped down my throat when I wrote about skipping on the "yucky yolk." It was just my personal opinion, and I've read plenty of research to substantiate claims against eating so many egg yolks. Don't get me wrong, I think one or two whole eggs per day is perfectly fine and they can offer some nutritional benefits. I choose not to eat very many egg yolks because, based on research I have done, I believe the bad outweighs the good in high doses.

I would also like to agree that posting a website link directly to the "incredibleegg" site is only going to get us to a page full of bias information. If you would like to prove a point, then please post an unbiased and credible source. I'm all for learning new things about health, but not from biased sources.

This is from CBS...maybe more credible

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/08/earlyshow/health/main7329038.shtml

One more thing,

While it is admirable that people make an effort to substantiate claims in a post with a reference, please don't undermine the process by linking a conflict of interest website. When the name of the website is "incredibleegg" and is owned by the American Egg Board, there is a very obvious bias that is not going to do much in terms of scientific substantiation of a claim.

Here is a short article on "egg yolk" from the Mayo Clinic (foreign heads of state pay through the nose to come to it to get themselves treated, that should give a heads up on where it fits as a medical institution):

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol/HQ00608

Thank you for posting this. People jumped down my throat when I wrote about skipping on the "yucky yolk." It was just my personal opinion, and I've read plenty of research to substantiate claims against eating so many egg yolks. Don't get me wrong, I think one or two whole eggs per day is perfectly fine and they can offer some nutritional benefits. I choose not to eat very many egg yolks because, based on research I have done, I believe the bad outweighs the good in high doses.

I would also like to agree that posting a website link directly to the "incredibleegg" site is only going to get us to a page full of bias information. If you would like to prove a point, then please post an unbiased and credible source. I'm all for learning new things about health, but not from biased sources.

Apparently you missed the part about the chart, while being posted to the egg council site, is actually a USDA chart?
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 2010. USDA National Nutrient Database

On the website this is identified clearly at the bottom of the chart. I guess you consider, as does the person you quoted, the USDA baised in favor of eggs??

One more thing,

While it is admirable that people make an effort to substantiate claims in a post with a reference, please don't undermine the process by linking a conflict of interest website. When the name of the website is "incredibleegg" and is owned by the American Egg Board, there is a very obvious bias that is not going to do much in terms of scientific substantiation of a claim.

Here is a short article on "egg yolk" from the Mayo Clinic (foreign heads of state pay through the nose to come to it to get themselves treated, that should give a heads up on where it fits as a medical institution):

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol/HQ00608

Thank you for posting this. People jumped down my throat when I wrote about skipping on the "yucky yolk." It was just my personal opinion, and I've read plenty of research to substantiate claims against eating so many egg yolks. Don't get me wrong, I think one or two whole eggs per day is perfectly fine and they can offer some nutritional benefits. I choose not to eat very many egg yolks because, based on research I have done, I believe the bad outweighs the good in high doses.

I would also like to agree that posting a website link directly to the "incredibleegg" site is only going to get us to a page full of bias information. If you would like to prove a point, then please post an unbiased and credible source. I'm all for learning new things about health, but not from biased sources.

Apparently you missed the part about the chart, while being posted to the egg council site, is actually a USDA chart?
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 2010. USDA National Nutrient Database

On the website this is identified clearly at the bottom of the chart. I guess you consider, as does the person you quoted, the USDA baised in favor of eggs??

I apologize, I must have missed your chart. You don't have to get upset with me, I just I always thought it was best to not eat more than 2 egg yolks per day. I'm not really worried about the cholesterol because I know that is a myth, but the fat can add up pretty fast. I like to get fat from other sources throughout the day like olive oil and nuts, not from a few eggs. Do you know if there is a recommendation on how many eggs per day one can consume? Maybe I've been wrong on this, and I'm wondering if there is a limit.

From what I've read, as many as five servings a week of 2 eggs at time is fine. Managing your fats/ calories is fine. What bugs me is when a food or part of a food is demonized and it is not based in fact. I'm not upset at all with you personally. I don't really know you and if I met you I'd probably really like you.

You are correct that 2 whole eggs per day is probably fine. The "Conventional Wisdom" is that is too much. I don't buy it. As you said the whole cholesterol thing has been so blown out of proportion without fact. In an article on The Framingham Heart Study, the doctor who was in charge of the study some years ago even espoused the fact that there had to be some dietary connection even though his own study for over 40 years at the time said differently. So no hard feelings and I hope I didn't create any. I do get a little passionate about the whole nutrition thing as it is part of my life work. And I enjoy a vigorous debate!