Posted: 3/21/2007 8:36:54 AM EDT
| ...can one eat before it becomes unhealthy? I like eggs and would eat them nearly every morning for breakfast, but my (limited) understanding is that to do so would pose a serious risk of heart disease due to increased cholesterol. Is that true or have I been duped by some anti-egg propaganda? |
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"The yolk of one large egg has about 213 mg of cholesterol." I don't know what the recommended limit is for cholesterol, but you can do the math. Also red meat has a lot of cholesterol so if you eat that often, you may be leading yourself to high cholesterol (like my dad). Taken from The Mayo Clinic |
It's about 300mg per day, based on a 2000 cal diet. |
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My wifes grandfather ate 3 eggs for breakfast with bacon and whatever else. He'd save some bacon fat for a bacon fat sammich for lunch. Dinner was always something different. He did this for at least 70 years, he's 88 now and but still in OK shape but he doesn't eat like that anymore. -JTP |
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You eat 1028+ mg of cholesterol a day during the week, and possibly more on the weekend? |
 Thanks for the info all. The numbers are indeed very revealing. |
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The dietary intake of cholesterol from eggs will likely have little or no effect on serum cholesterol levels. Whole eggs are probably the single most nutritious food you can eat. To get the most nutrition from the yolk it should be heated as little as possible and the white should always be cooked until it's white and firm. ETA: One of the worst things you can do while "dieting" is to eliminate fat from your diet. Grains and starchy vegetables are the foods you should eliminate or only eat in very small quantities if you want to keep the weight off for the long term. |
| Depends on your metablism I think. When my wife and I first got married and bought our farm we were dirt poor and ate eggs from our chickens all the time, probably averaged 5 a day each as that was all the good protein we had. After a few years of that I had my chloresterol checked and it was 160. I don't think there's any direct correlation between eggs and chloresterol, it has more to do with genetics. |
I usually go by the odd/even year theory. In even years, eggs are good for you. In odd years, eggs are bad for you. Guess what? It's 2007 and the "eggs are bad" people are back, right on schedule. 
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I do not like them in a box. I do not like them with a fox. I do not like them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse. I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. |
If that's all you eat you'll die from rabbit starvation. 
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I usually eat 6-8 at a time with 2-3 yolks left in. You can spoon out a few yolks to reduce the fat content. |
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I eat two to four eggs for breakfast every weekday (I don't eat breakfast on weekends since I don't get up till noon) and my total cholesterol is 175, LDL is 77 as of last week. Eggs are not bad for you in a vacum, it's how they relate to your total diet that will have a positive or negetive effect on your health. |
The Army went to eggs & sausage/bacon every other day in '89 in order to reduce cholesterol intake-the no eggs/bacon days came to be known as "deal a meal" breakfasts and were considered to suck. |
You guys are cracking me up !! Everybody in the office is wondering what the heck I am laughing so hard about. Ahem,, I have got to control my laughter more or face greater scrutiny from my peers. "chuckle, chuckle" |
A three pound New Zealand white rabbit, freshly butchered and cut into 7 pieces, is best fried by alternate coating of well-beaten egg and seasoned flour/bread crumbs. Let it sit for 15 minutes, then dredge it again the the egg and finally bread crumb/flour. Fry it in good peanut oil. I am hungry now... |