Anyone else just eat a lot of eggs?

I eat eggs when I crave them. I don't believe in quotas for nor force feeding foodstuffs that are supposed to be very tasty and enjoyable .

Sometimes I enjoy:

French crepes

Egg fried rice

Omelettes at breakfast bars

Diner eggs

Fried eggs on toast

Egg whites on bagels

Eggs are a complete food source. You can safely consume organic eggs, ideally free range with the orange yolks, not light yellow. Break open the egg, let the white run into a cup, and pass the yolk to the other half of the shell and then gulp! After after a few yolks I feel less muscle tension, it must be because the amino acids are absorbed quickly and the muscles react. Everything deteriorates with processing/heating/pasturization and that includes muscle building products.

People who eat a lot of eggs are trying too hard. You always seem them with their hard boiled eggs and measured vegetables trying to attain the perfect dietary mix.

Just run miles and eat reasonably.

I am the Eggman wrote:

1) Cholesterol is good for you and essential for life. 2) Eating eggs will not raise serum cholesterol anyway.

Piano_Man87 wrote:

I eat a few every other day. I'd love to eat more but I'm worried about the cholesterol. I know the medical community doesn't think eggs are nearly as bad as before, but they just don't know everything, and it's probably a bit safer to eat them in moderation, as everything else.

Right on point number one, regarding the medical community, wrong on number two. Eating any animal product raises cholesterol, due to the presence of cholesterol in the animal product itself (cell walls, and the yolk of an egg which averages about 180 - 250 mg or more depending on the size of the egg). But once a dietary intake of 300 mg of cholesterol is achieved, additional dietary cholesterol intake does not raise it any further. Saturated fat is much more of an issue, as it up regulated the production of cholesterol by the liver, which is then dumped into the bloodstream. See below, one of many:

Dietary cholesterol and egg yolks: not for patients at risk of vascular disease.

Spence JD1, Jenkins DJ, Davignon J.

Author information

1Stroke Prevention & Atheroschlerosis Research Centre, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario.

Abstract

A widespread misconception has been developing among the Canadian public and among physicians. It is increasingly believed that consumption of dietary cholesterol and egg yolks is harmless. There are good reasons for long- standing recommendations that dietary cholesterol should be limited to less than 200 mg/day; a single large egg yolk contains approximately 275 mg of cholesterol (more than a day's worth of cholesterol). Although some studies showed no harm from consumption of eggs in healthy people, this outcome may have been due to lack of power to detect clinically relevant increases in a low-risk population. Moreover, the same studies showed that among participants who became diabetic during observation, consumption of one egg a day doubled their risk compared with less than one egg a week. Diet is not just about fasting cholesterol; it is mainly about the postprandial effects of cholesterol, saturated fats, oxidative stress and inflammation. A misplaced focus on fasting lipids obscures three key issues. Dietary cholesterol increases the susceptibility of low-density lipoprotein to oxidation, increases postprandial lipemia and potentiates the adverse effects of dietary saturated fat. Dietary cholesterol, including egg yolks, is harmful to the arteries. Patients at risk of cardiovascular disease should limit their intake of cholesterol. Stopping the consumption of egg yolks after a stroke or myocardial infarction would be like quitting smoking after a diagnosis of lung cancer: a necessary action, but late. The evidence presented in the current review suggests that the widespread perception among the public and health care professionals that dietary cholesterol is benign is misplaced, and that improved education is needed to correct this misconception.

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Piano_Man87 wrote:

I eat a few every other day. I'd love to eat more but I'm worried about the cholesterol. I know the medical community doesn't think eggs are nearly as bad as before, but they just don't know everything, and it's probably a bit safer to eat them in moderation, as everything else.

The other issue is in fact the 'science" or lack thereof. The scientific studies done that have shown "no significant effect on cholesterol" following the addition of eggs to the diet were done using study subjects that were already consuming a high fat diet with over 300 mg of dietary cholesterol intake daily to begin with. As I stated previously, at 300 mg/day the serum cholesterol levels plateau, thus any addition above that will have no effect. The lay press and the egg boards across the country have mistakenly fixated on this by proclaiming that eggs have no effect on cholesterol, which simply is not true, and is based on bad experimental design.

I average around ten per day.

I am the Eggman wrote:

1) Cholesterol is good for you and essential for life. 2) Eating eggs will not raise serum cholesterol anyway.

Cholesterol is a STEROID, you cheater.

I eat about 60 eggs a day. You've got to work your way up, though. Start out as a boy with 48 eggs a day or so and you'll get large enough in no time.