Eggs are now bad for you...AGAIN!

[Chuckanut]

Just wait another week. There will be another report that eggs are great for you.

My guess is that the study is just chicken eggs.

How about wild Canada Goose eggs? It would also have the benefit of depleting the annoying over population of these critters in our local parks.

 

[Walt34]

More often than not on gym days I eat a hard boiled egg for breakfast and maybe later have another sliced one on my salad.

Today I'm saved though, because instead of the egg on my salad I substituted sliced pepperoni.

 

[NW-Bound]

My guess is that the study is just chicken eggs.

How about wild Canada Goose eggs? It would also have the benefit of depleting the annoying over population of these critters in our local parks.

Chicken eggs, duck eggs, quail eggs, goose eggs, they are not too different.

How 'bout crocodile eggs? An ice cream store in the Philippines uses crocodile egg yolk to make ice cream. The owner says “You can really taste the difference and realize how the crocodile egg yolks enhance the texture of the ice cream. It’s so smooth and creamy.”

Are you not curious to try?

 

[dtbach]

Myself and DW go through about a dozen a week. I'm not going to give them up. It's like a flight surgeon told a group of us back in the Navy "you could live 3 weeks longer if you gave up having a milk shake once a week". I don't have milk shakes even once a month now, but I'm still going to have one now and then. Screw the extra 3 weeks. . . .

 

[MRG]

My guess is that the study is just chicken eggs.

How about wild Canada Goose eggs? It would also have the benefit of depleting the annoying over population of these critters in our local parks.

You fetching them? [emoji13]

I don't much care for goose eggs but the video filmed on a Canadian Goose egg raid might be pretty funny. I think Canadian geese are federally protected so probably not a great idea.

 

[ziggy29]

Obviously any "vice" can be taken to excess, but really, how much life is lost -- in terms of time AND enjoyment -- by making people stress over every last decision about what they put into their bodies, even in moderation? That stress isn't good for you, either.

It all reminds me of an old, probably apocryphal story attributed to Winston Churchill. Supposedly a woman once went up to him and asked, "Sir, is it true that if I quit smoking and drinking and red meat, I can live to be 100?" Churchill's alleged response: "Yes, madam, but it will feel like 200."

 

[Nick12]

If you are feeling brave and adventerous, balut eggs are like no other.

 

[TromboneAl]

The way I comprehended the study is it was not the eggs themselves, it is that the typical person that eats 3 or more eggs per day also typically has other bad habits "such as low physical activity, smoking and an unhealthy diet" (according to this study). The eggs are a correlation, not a causation, of the shorter lifespan. IMHO.

However, what alarmed me is the apparent re-emergence of the cholesterol versus fat discussion. From the article: "Additionally, cholesterol-containing foods are usually rich in saturated fat and animal protein". AArgh!

Thanks for posting that so I don't have to.

 

[ziggy29]

However, what alarmed me is the apparent re-emergence of the cholesterol versus fat discussion. From the article: "Additionally, cholesterol-containing foods are usually rich in saturated fat and animal protein". AArgh!

Also: Aquatic environments are usually rich in oxygen and hydrogen atoms.

 

[ckelly78z]

We grow our own free range chickens on our farm, and have an abundance of dark yoked (orange, not yellow) eggs that have GOT to be better for us than the processed GMO, factory farm produced eggs. I don't really care what any news program wants to say about it, I enjoy a few eggs guilt free.

 

[ls99]

I like eggs, have them three to four times a week. There was a time when I was broke, daily meal consisted of two to three eggs. For many weeks.

Besides, what other single food has all the ingredients to support the creation of a living, breathing, walking, flying thing? Pretty impressive IMHO.

 

[street]

^ interesting. I forgot about that till you mentioned it, but I use to live off of them too when first starting out. The were cheap and fast to I eat a lot of them too. Lol

 

[travelover]

Just wait another week. There will be another report that eggs are great for you.

Just as a precaution, I'm doubling my beer intake before some study condemns beer.

 

[Oz investor]

what about egg white ( powder ) i used a LOT of that when i was body-building ( along with whey powder and other supplements )

( and some real eggs at meal times )

 

[robnplunder]

Just as a precaution, I'm doubling my beer intake before some study condemns beer.

Wine for me, with two eggs.


Today, I have omelette for breakfast, and a boiled egg for a dinner.

 

[braumeister]

Odd anecdote:
When I was a teenager, a friend was told by his doctor to stop eating eggs because the albumin level in his blood was dangerously high. He was a big guy and typically ate at least a dozen eggs a day.

I have no idea whether the doctor's advice was appropriate, even for the time, but it was the only time I've ever heard of anything like that.

Personally, I've eaten about a dozen eggs a week for most of my life. No problems I'm aware of.

 

[LRDave]

Wine for me, with two eggs.

http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oeufs_en_meurette A delicious specialty in Burgundy....

 

[LRDave]

In our recent move to rural Alabama, we discovered two local families selling eggs from their farmyard hens at 2$/dozen. We bring our own recycled cartons.


So.... real food, locally sourced, minimal packaging, hens that we can SEE are roaming around, eating what chickens are supposed to eat and economical. Plus a way for us to get to know our neighbors.

 

[mystang52]

I'm late to the game on this thread. I switched to egg whites many years ago. At this point, I don't like the taste of egg yolks so regardless I'm not changing.
I am not a statistician. But way too often I read about various studies that may find an association, while not making any conclusion about cause/effect. And, as at least one other responder noted, many times these studies fail to account for other factors that could affect the results, such as the participants' comorbidities.

 

[Focus]

I've come to believe that, literally, "one man's meat is another man's poison," based on ethnic origin, family history and personal body makeup. Eggs could be great for me and terrible for you.

 

[JoeWras]

I'm late to the game on this thread. I switched to egg whites many years ago. At this point, I don't like the taste of egg yolks so regardless I'm not changing.

I like yolks. Whites alone sometimes are too rubbery for me. Maybe too much cooking on my part.

I like Egg Beaters. I don't like that they are a chemistry set.

 

[HFWR]

Cough cough bullshit cough cough...

 

[Christine]

The only thing this article proved is that the journalist is a bad one. Who either did not understand the case beeing reported on or deliberately wanted to create a click bait.


Eggs are not bad. But the study was pretty bad. Or at least the conclusions. From the article itself:

Victoria Taylor, a senior dietitian with the British Heart Foundation, told Science Media Centre that "this type of study can only show an association, rather than cause and effect, and more research is needed for us to understand the reasons behind this link."

I'm still having my 12 eggs or so per week.


In these times where fake news is shouted from every angle I wish journalists would stop watering out the trust I have in them by writing shitty articles like these.

 

[Boho]

Associations matter. The article says:

...compared with previously published analyses, the new report 'is far more comprehensive, with enough data to make a strong statement that eggs and overall dietary cholesterol intake remain important in affecting the risk of [cardiovascular disease], and more so the risk of all-cause mortality'

But the article doesn't say eating eggs increases your risk of anything. It's about ADDING ADDITIONAL eggs to people's current diet.

 

[ejman]

Chicken eggs, duck eggs, quail eggs, goose eggs, they are not too different.

How 'bout crocodile eggs? An ice cream store in the Philippines uses crocodile egg yolk to make ice cream. The owner says “You can really taste the difference and realize how the crocodile egg yolks enhance the texture of the ice cream. It’s so smooth and creamy.”

Are you not curious to try?

Do crocodile moms sit on their eggs? If so, a tip of the hat to the crocodile egg collector I remember when we had laying hens that they were not too happy when I reached under them to get the eggs.