Egg Article-What do you think?

[Mrs_S]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/eggconsu...abeticmenstudy

Interesting.

[quotidianlight]

In that study they didn't track or even record any other factors so for all we know they were eating those eggs with 3 cup sides of hash browns. It's science so wait three days and they'll have another study saying 6 eggs a week cures cancer

[Chicklady]

All I can say is.....remember in the late 70's, early 80's, they told us to switch to margarine? We're all guinea pigs. I wonder how many centuries from now it will be before our experiments benefit someone

[kate58]

A couple of things jumped out at me from that article. First it says 6 eggs a week causes no problems, 7 causes problems. Give me a break! One extra egg is the tipping point???? If your eggs are big do you hit that early? If you eat pullets eggs can you have 9? It's ridiculous.

The second and most intersting thing is that the main effects were noticed on those with diabetes - which leads the report to theorise that "diabetics might somehow convert dietary cholesterol more readily into blood cholesterol than people without diabetes" What arrant nonsense! How about an alternative theory "The high carb diet officially recommended for diabetes causes an increase in bad Cholesterol and makes people's diabetes worse".

Remember these are diabetic doctors that are being studied. I bet they adhere to the high carb officially recommend diabetes diet in the main. Which in my opinion renders the study meaningless to anyone eating low carb.

And anyway, any study that looks at one food in isolation from others in the diet like this is entirely pointless and no conclusions can be drawn from it. This is the kind of junk science that gives nutrition research a bad name.

[HulaMom]

I don't buy it and here's why.
Let's stop and think about what humans were eating 5,000 years ago. They were eating what the body was naturally designed to eat. They would have hunted and gathered. Wild meat, nuts, vegetables.
One of their staples had to be eggs. It would have been the easiest protein to gather. It is renewable. It is the most basic whole food that we have.
How in the world can eggs now be the problem.

[EmDee]

why do you say eggs would have been easy to gather? I don't think there were many hen houses 5,000 years ago and wild fowl do not generally leave their nests out in the open.

I think it would have been easier to catch and kill small mammals.

[Chicklady]

Actually, "in season" eggs were probably abundant, much like fruit and vegetables were seasonal before agriculture came to be. Most wild birds do not lay eggs year round; they have a built in signal based on light and temperature, depending on the bird.
I wonder too, if the southern humans would have been more evolved to eat frquent eggs than those who journeyed northward.

[dpaca]

I posted this link before, but since I think it is a good experiment highlighting the positive effect of eggs on cholesterol here it is again.

http://health.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=108677

Also, I did this experiment myself. I had my cholesterol checked out before I decided to re-start atkins and I was Ok but still nearly borderline, something like 190. Anyway I read this article and I decided to only eat boiled eggs for a week. I went back a week later and my cholesterol was down to 175. Everyone inlcuding the biochemist that took my blood was shocked. Apparently with a so called healthy diet it takes months to reduce cholesterol that much. Well before i did the one week of eggs, I was eating only fruits and vegetables and low fat and my cholesterol was higher. So I hope this helps, and if you can try it yourself.

[Mrs_S]

dpaca-i remember reading your other post with this link and i use this as my "defense" so to speak when i am getting some resistance to all the eggs i eat!

i just wanted to post this article to get everyone's opinon, and i agree...it doesn't seem based on sound evidence and i will continue to eat my eggs everyday all week long!

[dpaca]

Originally Posted by Mrs_S

dpaca-i remember reading your other post with this link and i use this as my "defense" so to speak when i am getting some resistance to all the eggs i eat!

i just wanted to post this article to get everyone's opinon, and i agree...it doesn't seem based on sound evidence and i will continue to eat my eggs everyday all week long!

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