What to eat?

[Crystalised]

I Need Help(obviously)...

New to the correct food to be eating thing... When they say e.g "20 egg whites, with 3 full eggs" are these cooked or raw? also do you just pick the yolk out? (I don't do kitchens...)

Also oatmeal - raw? or nuked? = porridge?

Other good bulking meals?

[teamfatboy]

I Need Help(obviously)...

New to the correct food to be eating thing... When they say e.g "20 egg whites, with 3 full eggs" are these cooked or raw? also do you just pick the yolk out? (I don't do kitchens...)

Also oatmeal - raw? or nuked? = porridge?

Other good bulking meals?

Oatmeal - your choice, nuked or just soaked (make up a protein shake if that's how you have it, or water or milk, then just let it stand to soften). But yeah, I guess kinda = porridge (without the sugar, sultanas or whatever!)

Eggs - you really shouldn't be eating raw, out of the shell, eggs, either whole or just the whites, so yes, they're cooked. The reason for that s the risk of Salmonella, which cooking neutralises.

Yes, you separate out the yolks. Why? there's debate that suggests egg yolks, although high in protein, are also high in cholesterol. By all accounts its not fully accepted yet that this is true, but to minimise the risk if someone eats a lot of eggs, discarding the yolks may cut the odds of raising their cholesterol.

The other options to get protein from eggs are egg protein powder, or pasteurised/ frozen liquid egg whites. These don't need to be cooked, you can make them into shakes.

[Crystalised]

Cheers, and one more... difference between brown and white rice?

[Thunderhorse]

I really don't know why people say to not use the yolks! Dietary cholesterol does not change blood cholesterol except in a very small proportion (we're talking 1% or less of the population) of genetically unlucky individuals. When you don't eat adequate fat with your protein, you are not absorbing it properly and it will just be used for glucose production.

Think about it - there are not many sources of protein in nature that don't have fat. Meat, milk, eggs, nuts, seeds....all contain fat. The ones that don't (e.g beans and grains) tend to contain small amounts of protein or incomplete protein. Do yourself a favour - don't shortchange yourself on some super-lean diet, research the Paleolithic Diet.

[rose]

Think about it - there are not many sources of protein in nature that don't have fat. Meat, milk, eggs, nuts, seeds....all contain fat... don't shortchange yourself on some super-lean diet

The only bad fats are factory fats, i.e. biochemically-altered fats you may remember from such educational films as "hydrogenated" or "partially hydrogenated".

Low fat diets lead to severe deficiencies in essential lipids, such as fat-soluble vitamins, essential fatty acids and phospholipids.

Basically, if you don't eat fat you'll likely end up not being able to utilise fat. And you get very unhealthy :doh:

It's why people on low fat diets are misery buckets. They're starving their brains and bodies of something that makes it tick.

[Thunderhorse]

Not to mention that your cell membranes are made out of saturated fat.

[runveerun]

I really don't know why people say to not use the yolks! Dietary cholesterol does not change blood cholesterol except in a very small proportion (we're talking 1% or less of the population) of genetically unlucky individuals. When you don't eat adequate fat with your protein, you are not absorbing it properly and it will just be used for glucose production.

Think about it - there are not many sources of protein in nature that don't have fat. Meat, milk, eggs, nuts, seeds....all contain fat. The ones that don't (e.g beans and grains) tend to contain small amounts of protein or incomplete protein. Do yourself a favour - don't shortchange yourself on some super-lean diet, research the Paleolithic Diet.

Yep I totally agree, half the protein in an egg is in the yolk, I eat the whole thing and I have LOW cholesterol. We need fat to burn fat!

[Eddy]

Think about it - there are not many sources of protein in nature that don't have fat. Meat, milk, eggs, nuts, seeds....all contain fat... don't shortchange yourself on some super-lean diet

The only bad fats are factory fats, i.e. biochemically-altered fats you may remember from such educational films as "hydrogenated" or "partially hydrogenated".

Low fat diets lead to severe deficiencies in essential lipids, such as fat-soluble vitamins, essential fatty acids and phospholipids.

Basically, if you don't eat fat you'll likely end up not being able to utilise fat. And you get very unhealthy :doh:

It's why people on low fat diets are misery buckets. They're starving their brains and bodies of something that makes it tick.

Thanks for this, the most comprehensive response I've read so far on this forum regarding the issue of egg yolks.

Cheers!

[JoshVC]

There has always been a massive debate about white vs. yolks. The reason people have say 20 egg whites is because they have to make up for the protein they cut out by leaving the yolk. I always eat the whole egg even when cutting.