Egg YOLK

[recent addict]

From reading a few journals, recipes etc. it seems egg whites, with maybe a couple of yolks is the way to go. But as I'm a bit of a scrooge and don't eat all that cleanly anyway I eat the whole of every egg rather than throw out a lot of yolks (I see it as a waste of protein and money).

If I'm having about 4 eggs a day is this going to be bad for me?

I can understand having only whites if you're downing 20 in a sitting (read that on here somewhere, wow!) but is the yolk really that bad for you at lower quantities?

In defence of the yolk I picked up this rant in a spam email from "truthaboutabs.com" what do you think?...

"I was on a weekend trip with some friends recently and one of my friends was cooking breakfast for the whole group. I went over to see what he was cooking and saw he was getting ready to make a big batch of eggs.

Well, to my shock and horror, I noticed that he was cracking the eggs open and screening the egg whites into a bowl and throwing out the egg yolks. I asked him why the heck he was throwing out the egg yolks, and he replied...

"because I thought the egg yolks were terrible for you...that's where all the nasty fat and cholesterol is".

And I replied, "you mean that's where all the nutrition is!"

This is a perfect example of how confused most people are about nutrition. In a world full of misinformation, somehow most people now mistakenly think that the egg yolk is the worst part of the egg, when in fact, the YOLK IS THE HEALTHIEST PART OF THE EGG!

By throwing out the yolk and only eating egg whites, you're essentially throwing out the most nutrient dense, antioxidant-rich, vitamin and mineral loaded portion of the egg. The yolks contain so many B-vitamins, trace minerals, vitamin A, folate, choline, lutein, and other powerful nutrients... it's not even worth trying to list them all.

In fact, the egg whites are almost devoid of nutrition compared to the yolk.

Even the protein in egg whites isn't as powerful without the yolks to balance out the amino acid profile and make the protein more bio-available. Not to even mention that the egg yolks from free range chickens are loaded with omega-3 fatty acids.

Yolks contain more than 90% of the calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, thiamin, B6, folate, and B12, and panthothenic acid of the egg. In addition, the yolks contain all of the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K in the egg, as well as all of the essential fatty acids.

And now the common objection I get all the time when I say that the yolks are the most nutritious part of the egg...

"But I heard that whole eggs will skyrocket my cholesterol through the roof"

No, this is FALSE!

First of all, when you eat a food that contains a high amount of dietary cholesterol such as eggs, your body down-regulates it's internal production of cholesterol to balance things out.

On the other hand, if you don't eat enough cholesterol, your body simply produces more since cholesterol has tons of important functions in the body.

And here's where it gets even more interesting...

There are indications that eating whole eggs actually raises your good HDL cholesterol to a higher degree than LDL cholesterol, thereby improving your overall cholesterol ratio and blood chemistry.

And 3rd... high cholesterol is NOT a disease! Heart disease is a disease...but high cholesterol is NOT"

Sorry for the length of that but I didn't know how to link it.

[psi_brg]

hey dude can you reference that?!

[Juju]

hey dude can you reference that?!

http://www.truthaboutabs.com/whole-eggs ... hites.html

[holdenman]

I think Android may have some good advice on this, if I remember correctly he had maybe 12 whole eggs a day for a year with no ill effects on cholestrol..

[psi_brg]

Arnie also represents eating the whole egg, i love eggs as they are the standard for protein absorbstion! eat 1 egg and you get all the goodness, eat a chicken breast and you only get 70% or so! the bennefits you cannot doubt !

[Agent]

Dave Palumbo is also a big advocate of whole eggs, especially the omega 3 enriched kind. He says that 6 whole egss a day are no problem, in fact his basic mass building diet actually has 11 whole eggs in it.

[recent addict]

Well those are all encouraging responses, looks like it's whole eggs for me