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The Good Egg

Here's some welcome news for breakfast lovers: Eggs may help reduce your weight.

Eggs already have been reinstated as a health food (the major Nurses' Health Study cleared eggs of upping heart attack and stroke risk). Now there's evidence that people who scramble, boil, or poach one for breakfast -- versus eating a bagel with the same number of calories -- bypass junk-food cravings and eat fewer calories for at least 24 hours, without even trying.

Thanks to what turned out to be a bad cholesterol rap, you may have avoided eggs for years.

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okamo

0 of 2 people found this helpful.

11/15/2008 6:54:10 PM

To Yaradnog. So six eggs a week are OK. The seventh one is a killer :-)

Cygnus

6 of 6 people found this helpful.

10/6/2008 2:43:15 PM

The one thing that we are missing here is how the hens are fed. I know that the Omega-3 eggs comes from hens that are fed a different diet than the hens that produce the regular non-Omega 3 eggs. It's possible that the bad cholesterol eggs(if such exist) come from the hens with the not so good diet. I always buy the Omega-3 eggs for this reason. Also, the preparing of eggs is a factor. I pan fry my omeletes ... I know, many of you are thinking that that is bad. Let me say that what kind of oil you use is important. I used to use olive oil for frying and I was wondering why I had an upset stomach after eating my omelete. I found out that olive oil has a low burning point, so I was eating charred olive oil with my eggs. That is not good, you don't want to eat anything charred, it can make you sick. I use grapeseed oil now, it has a high burning point and my stomach couldn't be happier.

Siobhann

7 of 8 people found this helpful.

9/4/2008 10:57:52 AM

To Yaradnog - regarding the study, I would need to see more before making a final decision. Were the results similar across the board, regardless of how the eggs were cooked? Did the men who ate eggs eat them with higher-saturated fat foods such as bacon or sausage? As per greengirl8, the way an egg is cooked has an impact on how well it is absorbed and how healthy it is.

yaradnog

21 of 28 people found this helpful.

6/30/2008 8:59:35 AM

Words of wisdom: Don't judge the egg too early. Here is an reproduced article on the potentially deadly egg.

Egg Consumption Poses Risks for Diabetic Men: Study By Alan Mozes

HealthDay Reporter 44 minutes ago THURSDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) --

A new study suggests that consuming more than six eggs a week seems to raise the risk of dying from all causes.And diabetics seem to face an even higher mortality risk, according to the study that was limited to men. "The more eggs diabetic men consumed, the more they increased their risk for death," said study lead author Dr. Luc Djousse, an associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Djousse and his team analyzed egg consumption and mortality data among more than 21,000 men who had participated in a Physician's Health Study that explored heart disease and cancer prevention among American male doctors. Participants ranged in age from 40 to 86. Over an average of 20 years, all the doctors completed annual written questionnaires on daily egg consumption, stroke and heart attack incidence, diabetes status, cholesterol levels, alcohol and smoking habits, and general dietary information.

Debo2young

16 of 20 people found this helpful.

5/12/2008 11:25:59 AM

I'm very impress about this site and now I'm looking younger than my Age.

greengirl8

38 of 39 people found this helpful.

5/6/2008 7:59:48 AM

It's better to soft boil or poach eggs than fry or scramble because heat denatures the protien of an egg(causing a chemical reaction and making it less soluble). The hotter the heat and the longer it is applied to the egg, the more the protien is denatured. It's also important to eat the yolk because it is less susceptible to this process, due to the fact that it is protected by it's fat content. Eating "raw eggs" was once popular because the uncooked protien is highly absorbable in its soluable state. That is of course until we discovered salmonella. However, salmonella will die at only 165F. Also, be sure not to over cook your boiled eggs because it will cause iron sulfide to form. This is when there is a green film around the yolk, yuck!

[Edited by greengirl8 on 5/6/2008 8:12:13 AM]

AnkleWeigh...

6 of 10 people found this helpful.

5/5/2008 8:24:35 PM

Get store-brand egg whites in a quart carton. Save money and no yolks! Taste the scrambled eggs: just like the cracked eggs!

pdxlady

4 of 9 people found this helpful.

5/5/2008 11:03:07 AM

Very confusing, contradicting yourself. Guess I better stick with oatmeal till you figure it out!

Vulcan

8 of 10 people found this helpful.

5/5/2008 9:14:36 AM

Although the nurses' egg study, as pointed out by the southeastasian diet comment, shows increased risk for heart attack or stroke when eating eggs, the statistical interpretation of the data is important. I found a related JAMA article in a RealAge search.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that consumption of up to 1 egg per day is unlikely to have substantial overall impact on the risk of CHD or stroke among healthy men and women. The apparent increased risk of CHD associated with higher egg consumption among diabetic participants warrants further research.
DETAILS:
For all MEN, it concluded that the increased risk of corinary heart disease was:
One egg per week, 6% (risk=1.06 x base)
Two to four eggs per week, 12%
One or more eggs per day, 8%

For men and women with DIABETES eating at least one egg per day:
Men, more than double the risk
Women, 49% increase in risk
A 95% confidence range was shown only for the diabetic results.

This info is from a citation in a related article found by a RealAge search of "nurses' study egg":
"A prospective study of egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women"
JAMA. 1999 Apr 21;281(15):1387-94.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10217054?dopt=Citation

[Edited by Vulcan on 5/5/2008 11:54:50 AM]

southeasta...

5 of 11 people found this helpful.

5/5/2008 6:11:54 AM

THIS MAKES NO SENSE..THE EGG STUDY YOU LINK TO IN THE ARTICLE ABOVE, PROVES THAT EATING AN EGG A DAY INCREASES YOUR RISK OF A HEART ATTACK BY 2% MORE EACH DAY...THERE ARE 200 ML OF CHOLESTEROL IN 1 EGG AND ALOT OF THAT IS THE BAD CHOLESTEROL.

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