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2005/04/20, 06:57 PM
Are too many eggs bad for you? At the moment I plan on eating 4 hard boiled eggs a day just to build up the fat and protein without highering the carbs on my diet.
If eggs are bad are there any similar grocerys with near enough the same nutrition facts as a hard boiled egg?
Carbs = 0.6 Fat = 5.3 Protein = 6.3
Thanks
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2005/04/20, 09:00 PM
People always say eggs are bad for you because they are high in collesterol and fat, an alternative to eggs are egg whites, they are almost pure protein, they contain no fat but will cost you a little bit more money.
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2005/04/21, 04:16 AM
Well you can go to the store and around here buy 5 dozen eggs for like 5 dollars some times less. The you can just sperate the yolk yourself. it's easy to do buy a seperator in the kitchen gadgets section or just crack the egg in half and dump the yolk between the 2 hals till the white is al out.
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2005/04/21, 11:19 AM
Just crack it over a spoon...takes a little balancing act as the yolk tries to slide off the spoon with the egg white, but if it does you can fish it out as long as it hasn't broken. Tried this a few days ago and it worked just fine.
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2005/04/23, 06:29 PM
Or you can just take it out after you boil it
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2005/04/24, 09:06 AM
First off cholesterol in eggs has little to do with the cholesterol leve in a person's body...no study conclusively showed this relationship....yolks also contain majority of the vitamins/minerals in an egg....so you can go ahead and eat eggs within a reasonable amount...4 sounds fine to me....
if you still prefer to eat just egg whites you can search the net and buy them in bulk or search for egg whites powder.......buying whole eggs for egg whites is not practical...it will be way too expensive....
I like to get my eggs at a Costco...they are generally cheaper and larger....
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2005/04/24, 09:14 AM
hmmmm....I think most of us that avoid the yolk is because of the fat content. I actually priced out products like Eggbeaters and compared to whole eggs (for the whites) and the whole eggs were signifigantly cheaper. It is a pain to seperate the eggs, but I would personally prefer it. I have not looked into the powder form though - good idea!
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Quoting from menace3000:
First off cholesterol in eggs has little to do with the cholesterol leve in a person's body...no study conclusively showed this relationship....yolks also contain majority of the vitamins/minerals in an egg....so you can go ahead and eat eggs within a reasonable amount...4 sounds fine to me....
if you still prefer to eat just egg whites you can search the net and buy them in bulk or search for egg whites powder.......buying whole eggs for egg whites is not practical...it will be way too expensive....
I like to get my eggs at a Costco...they are generally cheaper and larger....
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2005/04/24, 05:27 PM
Try 1 yolk for every 4 eggs. As mentioned by Menace in another way, dietary cholesterol will not normally impact your cholesterol levels unless you have cholesterol problems, then of course be careful. In most cases, eggs will be fine.
A review of scientific research and recommendations regarding eggs.
Kritchevsky SB.
Sticht Center on Aging, Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA. skritche@wfubmc.edu
For much of the past 40 years, the public has been warned away from eggs because of a concern over coronary heart disease risk. This concern is based on three observations: 1. eggs are a rich source of dietary cholesterol; 2. when fed experimentally, dietary cholesterol increases serum cholesterol and; 3. high serum cholesterol predicts the onset of coronary heart disease. However, data from free-living populations show that egg consumption is not associated with higher cholesterol levels. Furthermore, as a whole, the epidemiologic literature does not support the idea that egg consumption is a risk factor for coronary disease. Within the nutritional community there is a growing appreciation that health derives from an overall pattern of diet rather than from the avoidance of particular foods, and there has been a shift in the tone in recent dietary recommendations away from "avoidance" messages to ones that promote healthy eating patterns. The most recent American Heart Association guidelines no longer include a recommendation to limit egg consumption, but recommend the adoption of eating practices associated with good health. Based on the epidemiologic evidence, there is no reason to think that such a healthy eating pattern could not include eggs.
PMID: 15640512
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