Breakfast Brainwave

Tiny,

That sounds good and low carb to me! Does the egg go a pretty green colour when you add the pesto?

Julia

Tinytoez said:

Julia, it would if I put more in, but it looks a little "mouldy", I assure you it isnt.
It may be low carb, but it doesnt help my "only 2 eggs a week" ration for my High Cholesterol

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I understood that eating more than 2 eggs a week was now OK as long as I cook them without adding extra saturated fats. I have them 3/4 times a week but vary the way I cook them such as boiling and poaching. I have also been making Microwave omelets with tomatoes and mushrooms which taste lovely but I fancy having a go at your recipe as well.

Just found this report by the British Heart foundation:-

http://www.bhf.org.uk/default.aspx?page=12920

I understood that eating more than 2 eggs a week was now OK as long as I cook them without adding extra saturated fats.

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I would say that there's as much misunderstanding about cholesterol, possibly even more, than there is about the so-called 'dangers' of low carbing. Total cholesterol is usually a concern for doctors, because that's been the conventional wisdom for a long time.
And saturated fat has been made the 'villain' in this for an equally long time.
Cholesterol is something which should not be too reduced. It has protective qualities.
The main worry is your ratio of triglycerides to HDL cholesterol.
The link below shows how a high saturated fat, low carb diet improves cholesterol :

http://www.thincs.org/Malcolm.choltheory.htm

You can google 'saturated fat and cholesterol' for further information on this topic.
I've said before how a statement in a book by Dr Briffa that "saturated fat is good for you" shocked me, and sent me googling and reading to research that statement.
It seems that saturated fat in the presence of high carbs is bad for you, but in the presence of low carbs isn't.
I eat plenty of eggs a week, as do many low carbers, and Atkins dieters, and I await my second lot of cholesterol readings since diagnosis. Most seem to report improvements, despite everything their doctors would have warned them against.

The truth is out there. Two rules :

1. Read everything with an open mind. Then with that same open mind, make up your own mind about any findings.
2. Be readier to accept that something has been disproved rather than proved. This goes a long way to dismantling conventional wisdom.

Geoff (the omelette king)

Thanks for the link Geoff, Cheese omelets back on the menu.

Tinytoez said:

Ooops, thats 4 soldiers gone already, well I had to taste it to check it wasnt poisonous.....

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We must shop for food in the same place TT. It always gets eaten quickly here as well

Egg consumption - 14+ a week.
Cholesterol: 4.56 HDL 1.56 LDL 2.66 TGL 0.75
Paravastatin 40Mg/day

So either Pravastatin is a wonder drug or eggs don't automatically mean high cholesterol.

Oh, and I major on cheese, bacon, sausage etc.

I try to go LCHF and sometimes manage it

Cheers

LGC

I am half way through the John Briffa book and finding the whole forensic breakdown of what does what inside us is revolutionising how I think about food, particularly carbs. I just had no idea what was the best way forward with being newly diagnosed T2, this book is helping enormously.........also we have 8 hens and 7 eggs a day, I was also of the thought school that eggs are not good, but am planning to increase my consumption from this day forward.

Kerry

Eggs are a superfood, I eat 2 every day, my son eats about 5 a day. Natures own.

catza said:

I understood that eating more than 2 eggs a week was now OK...

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I hope so, I am eating far more than two a week!

Well actually I'm happy that it is ok. My latest Cholesterol test says it is. When my DSN was asking about my diet the other day I admitted to her that although I was 100% confident that low carb lowers blood sugars that I wasn't as sure that eating high(er) fat would keep my cholesterol ok. She said the fact that a high fat diet had both normalised my cholesterol AND improved my good cholesterol was from her point of view the most impressive thing.

catza said:

I understood that eating more than 2 eggs a week was now OK...

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Hope so too as I can get through 10 a week. My cholesterol levels are all within range and I don't take statins(yet) although I don't strictly low-carb ( around 150g a day at present).

Tinytoez said:

What is the book called Kerry, I would be interested in taking a look myself?

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Hi

The book is called escape the diet trap, its not a diet book per se, its about what does what in where and with what...! I am finding it fascinating and its really making me think twice about not only what I eat, but why, eg, why you are hungry after eating a big bowl of pasta - because your sugars have peaked, your brain loved it and is sending out the signals for more of the same...

I have been low carb high protein-ing with no more or less fat than I have been eating (apart from using butter instead of cruddy chemically margerine/spread) before and I have lost over 6lb, still a long long way to go but if I can lose that in 10 days then there must be something in John Briffas book, Escape the diet trap.... Anybody else reading it?

Dr. Briffa has a blog as well http://www.drbriffa.com/blog/