Eggs - Good or Bad?

resander · Apr 18, 2019

CNN 2019-03-27:
Previous studies show decreased and no heart disease risk in those who ate up to one egg a day.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/27/health/eggs-good-or-bad-where-do-we-stand/index.html

HEALTHLINE 2018-08-23:
The science is clear that up to 3 whole eggs per day are perfectly safe for healthy people. Eggs consistently raise HDL (the “good”) cholesterol. For 70% of people, there is no increase in total or LDL cholesterol.

For people with diabetes:

Eric Berg says:
4 or more eggs OK
ADA (American Diabetes Association) said 2015:
Eat less than 300 mg dietary cholesterol (one egg) per day but also said 'Research now shows that cholesterol in foods has little effect on raising overall cholesterol levels in the body' unfortunately without quoting any sources.

So, I will continue to eat my 4 eggs per day 7 days a week, two poached in breakfasts and 2 in omelettes/scrambled for lunch.

Your thoughts on this and egg consumption?

Guzzler · Apr 18, 2019

Eggs are good. No! Eggs are excellent so knock yourself out!

Caeseji · Apr 18, 2019

Eggs make my dietary world go round now!

resander · Apr 18, 2019

Eggcellent!

Deleted member 308541 · Apr 18, 2019

Four dozen a fortnight I go through, or 3.428571 eggs a day.

Mostly in omelettes and hard boiled eggs.

Bluetit1802 · Apr 18, 2019

I live off them. Wonderful food. Full of goodness, and nothing bad in them.

JohnH2019 · Apr 18, 2019

Eggs are great, but...

Eat whole eggs, to include the healthy fats from the yolk
The source of the eggs and what the chickens were fed is key. Avoid corn and soy fed. Go for organic and pasture raised.

endocrinegremlin · Apr 21, 2019

Eggs are fabulous. But, I always make sure mines are free range

Pasha · Apr 21, 2019

Interesting article by a cardiologist,

https://theskepticalcardiologist.co...ng-nutritional-epidemiology-in-the-headlines/

Bluetit1802 · Apr 21, 2019

Pasha said:
Interesting article by a cardiologist,

https://theskepticalcardiologist.co...ng-nutritional-epidemiology-in-the-headlines/

It sounds like the author is getting heartily sick of the media and inflammatory headlines and scaremongering. Like the rest of us.

Hotpepper20000 · Apr 21, 2019

resander said:
CNN 2019-03-27:
Previous studies show decreased and no heart disease risk in those who ate up to one egg a day.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/27/health/eggs-good-or-bad-where-do-we-stand/index.html

HEALTHLINE 2018-08-23:
The science is clear that up to 3 whole eggs per day are perfectly safe for healthy people. Eggs consistently raise HDL (the “good”) cholesterol. For 70% of people, there is no increase in total or LDL cholesterol.

For people with diabetes:

Eric Berg says:
4 or more eggs OK
ADA (American Diabetes Association) said 2015:
Eat less than 300 mg dietary cholesterol (one egg) per day but also said 'Research now shows that cholesterol in foods has little effect on raising overall cholesterol levels in the body' unfortunately without quoting any sources.

So, I will continue to eat my 4 eggs per day 7 days a week, two poached in breakfasts and 2 in omelettes/scrambled for lunch.

Your thoughts on this and egg consumption?

Loves eggs. Better with bacon.

bulkbiker · Apr 21, 2019

resander said:
CNN 2019-03-27:
Previous studies show decreased and no heart disease risk in those who ate up to one egg a day.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/27/health/eggs-good-or-bad-where-do-we-stand/index.html

HEALTHLINE 2018-08-23:
The science is clear that up to 3 whole eggs per day are perfectly safe for healthy people. Eggs consistently raise HDL (the “good”) cholesterol. For 70% of people, there is no increase in total or LDL cholesterol.

For people with diabetes:

Eric Berg says:
4 or more eggs OK
ADA (American Diabetes Association) said 2015:
Eat less than 300 mg dietary cholesterol (one egg) per day but also said 'Research now shows that cholesterol in foods has little effect on raising overall cholesterol levels in the body' unfortunately without quoting any sources.

So, I will continue to eat my 4 eggs per day 7 days a week, two poached in breakfasts and 2 in omelettes/scrambled for lunch.

Your thoughts on this and egg consumption?

Eggs are eggcellent.. Dr Berg less so...

LooperCat · Apr 21, 2019

Had a lovely dinner tonight of two soft boiled duck eggs with purple sprouting broccoli and asparagus fried in goat butter to dip in them

Robinredbreast · Apr 21, 2019

I love eggs, they are eggjoyable, eggcellent, eggciting and eggquisit

enb54 · Apr 26, 2019

As far as eggs go I tried homemade tamagoyaki (without sugar) in a small frying pan but am graduating to a square pan when it arrives next week. Basically an omelette with a fancy Japanese name...

Sean01 · May 10, 2019

12-20 a DAY but only 4 yolks a day
Competing strongman - I need the protein and there is very little that can beat the quality of the protein in eggs - i.e. balance of amino acids
Omelettes at the moment but every now and then I flip over to hard boiled. Fried eggs (olive oil) at the week end.

Does it work: I've been on 12-24 eggs a day since I was 18. Food is functional (for me) it works.

Sean

Deleted member 308541 · May 10, 2019

endocrinegremlin said:
Eggs are fabulous. But, I always make sure mines are free range

Mine come out cages as they are cheep.

Hotpepper20000 said:
Loves eggs. Better with bacon.

Not to shabby with steak either.

SimonCrox · May 11, 2019

Yes - lots of uncertainty here. But recent analysis is interesting:-

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2728487

Each half an egg eaten per day increased risk of cardiovascular disease 6%, each 300 mg cholesterol eaten per day was associated with a 17% increase in CVD. The effect of eggs disappeared when one adjusts for the whole cholesterol intake (including the eggs) suggesting that it is the cholesterol in the eggs that is the problem. The study does not look at the blood cholesterol levels, but rather at the putative adverse outcomes of cardiovascular disease or death (which are true hard outcomes ).
I like my full English breakfast, so this is a blow.

bulkbiker · May 11, 2019

SimonCrox said:
Yes - lots of uncertainty here. But recent analysis is interesting:-

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2728487

Each half an egg eaten per day increased risk of cardiovascular disease 6%, each 300 mg cholesterol eaten per day was associated with a 17% increase in CVD. The effect of eggs disappeared when one adjusts for the whole cholesterol intake (including the eggs) suggesting that it is the cholesterol in the eggs that is the problem. The study does not look at the blood cholesterol levels, but rather at the putative adverse outcomes of cardiovascular disease or death (which are true hard outcomes ).
I like my full English breakfast, so this is a blow.

Usual food questionnaire rubbish..Even Keys said that dietary cholesterol doesn't effect blood cholesterol levels.
How can you tell from a food questionnaire that half an egg a day will have an impact on blood cholesterol?
Edit to add Dr Harcombe's debunking of that particular piece.
http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol-cvd/

JohnH2019 · May 12, 2019

Pasha said:
Interesting article by a cardiologist,

https://theskepticalcardiologist.co...ng-nutritional-epidemiology-in-the-headlines/

On top of the shoddy, click-bait, studies there are many truly nefarious studies sponsored by the big beverage and packaged food manufacturers, who will cherry pick just those that may put them in a better light. All the other studies will never even see the light of day, packaged in tight contracts with the researchers. For example:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...gs-scientists-walk-away-data-study-finds.html

And I am sure most are aware of the sugar studies from the 1960s that can be partly to blame for the whole all fat and cholesterol is bad nonsense and the spectacular rise of diabetes:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

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