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Eggs Are For Easter

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Eggs Are For Easter
Eggs are the richest unprocessed food commonly consumed. Rational thinking people might partake of this delicacy on a special occasion, such as after the annual Easter egg hunt. Reasonable behavior is undermined by the efforts of the American Egg Board whose mission is to make every day Easter for everybody, and the Board has a $14 million annual budget to accomplish this job. According to their web site (www.enc-online.org): “The American Egg Board’s mission is to allow egg producers to fund and carry out proactive programs to increase markets for eggs, egg products and spent fowl products through promotion, research and education. As the egg industry’s promotion arm, the American Egg Board’s foremost challenge is to convince the American public that the egg is still one of nature’s most nearly perfect foods.” Their efforts are working: U.S egg production during 2003 was 73.93 billion table eggs – this means, on average, 235 eggs a year for every single man, woman and child in the country.


Eggs Provide Ideal Nutrition (for Pre-hatched Chicks)

The purpose of a hen’s egg is to provide all the materials necessary to develop the one cell – created by the joining of a ****’s sperm with a hen’s ovum – into a complete chick with feathers, beak, legs, and tail. This miraculous growth and development is supported by a 1½ ounce package of ingredients – the hen’s egg – jam-packed with proteins, fats, cholesterol, vitamins and minerals. As a result, the hen’s egg has been called “one of nature’s most nutritious creations.” Indeed, an egg is the richest of all foods, and far too much of “good thing” for people. The components of a cooked egg, even a hard-boiled egg, are absorbed through our intestines. As a result, this highly-concentrated food provides too much cholesterol, fat and protein for our body to process safely. The penalties are diseases of overnutrition – heart disease, obesity, and type-2 diabetes to name only a few consequences from malnutrition due to the Western diet.

Eggs as “Ideal Protein”

Eggs are promoted as the ideal source of protein for people – often referred to as a “perfect protein.” Eggs are high in protein, but the kinds of proteins in hen’s eggs are not ideal for people. When volunteer subjects were fed different foods to determine the ability of humans to utilize various protein mixtures, investigators found that our bodies can utilize the proteins in a mixture of eggs and potatoes 36 percent more efficiently than those from eggs alone.1 If the protein make-up of eggs were ideal, then you couldn’t improve upon it by adding potatoes, could you? Vegetable sources provide for all the protein needs of people – much safer and more ideal than from hen’s eggs. (See the December 2003 McDougall Newsletter for more on protein.)




“Eggs Not Harmful to Health” – Says the Egg Industry

A significant amount of the $14 million collected each year by the American Egg Board is allocated for research projects examining the effects of dietary cholesterol on serum cholesterol levels in order to prove that eating eggs will not raise your risk of dying of heart disease. This is quite an endeavor when you consider eggs are the most concentrated source of cholesterol in the human diet – 8 times more cholesterol than beef. Traditionally, in scientific studies on humans, eggs have been used as the source to demonstrate the adverse effects of cholesterol on our health and our heart arteries.


Eggs are the Food
Richest in Cholesterol


Dozens of papers published in scientific journals and funded by “The Egg Nutrition Center” and/or the “American Egg Board” downplay the hazards of eating eggs. So how do they demonstrate that eating loads of these cholesterol-filled delicacies has little effect on blood cholesterol? The trick is to saturate the subjects with cholesterol from other sources, like beef, chicken and/or fish and then add eggs to the person’s diet. Once a person has consumed 400 to 800 mg of cholesterol in a day, adding more (like with an egg) causes little rise because the bowel cannot absorb much more cholesterol.16,17 Poor-quality studies, often funded by the egg industry, add to the false information they use to vindicate their products.18


Too Much of a “Bad Thing” – Cholesterol
(The Problem with Egg Yolks)

The real life effects of eggs were recently investigated in a large population of nearly 6,000 vegetarians and 5,000 non-vegetarians over a period of 13 years. Within this group of nearly 11,000 people, those eating eggs more than 6 times a week had a 2.47 times greater risk of dying of heart disease than those eating less than one egg a week.20




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https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2005nl/march/050300pueastereggs.htm
 
I love eggs.

Hard boiled.
Over medium.
Rancheros.
Eggs and weenies.
Eggs and chorizo.
Cheesy scrambled eggs.


In fact I just ate an egg salad sandwich. It was delicious.
 
just don't end up with egg on your face
 
I love eggs.

Hard boiled.
Over medium.
Rancheros.
Eggs and weenies.
Eggs and chorizo.
Cheesy scrambled eggs.


In fact I just ate an egg salad sandwich. It was delicious.

did you try egg salad with tahini ?
 
I make a perfect scrambled egg...soft and fluffy with none of that crusty stuff.
And then I put ketchup on it :D
 
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