Eggs worse than KFC Double Down...

[Wifezilla]

Exactly. Ingested cholesterol doesn't make your body pump out cholesterol. Cholesterol is created by the body (in most cases). Cholesterol is also not the unhealthy thing the press makes it out to be. It is necessary and important for your cells...especially your brain. Here is some good info on cholesterol for those interested...
http://cholestrolcare.com/dr-roseda...rol-is-not-the-major-culprit-in-heart-disease

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

THere is a huge push for low cholesterol diets for little ones. All this will do is ensure that they do not develop correctly.
Best first foods for babies in addition to breastmilk?
Pastured egg yolks, butter, liver and raw milk!

 

[Laurajean]

And then they contradict themselves by saying "...I advise my patients with vascular risk to keep their intake of animal flesh -- anything with eyes, a face or a mother, so it includes chicken and fish..." Um, I don't think that would include eggs! The article is just plain misleading garbage.

 

[maizey]

Ill see that article and raise this one

http://www.unisci.com/stories/20014/1029013.htm


so there

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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You said it!

 

[can you hear me now?]

Ok something they left out. I don't have anything to back it up, but here goes. I remember seeing that eggs are high in beneficial cholesterol. Now that that is out, people with high cholesterol are usually getting it from genes passed on from their own families. Most cardiologists will say to stay away from red meat above all else. That isn't the chicken. Last food for thought I want to throw in. I know for a fact when I was raising chicks and ran out of feed I cooked up some eggs from hard boiling them and fed them. Shouldn't that have caused a stroke in an animal that small? They need to do better studies in my opinion before they are allowed to publish them. Got my piece out, now I am happy

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

can you hear me now? :

Ok something they left out. I don't have anything to back it up, but here goes. I remember seeing that eggs are high in beneficial cholesterol. Now that that is out, people with high cholesterol are usually getting it from genes passed on from their own families. Most cardiologists will say to stay away from red meat above all else. That isn't the chicken. Last food for thought I want to throw in. I know for a fact when I was raising chicks and ran out of feed I cooked up some eggs from hard boiling them and fed them. Shouldn't that have caused a stroke in an animal that small? They need to do better studies in my opinion before they are allowed to publish them. Got my piece out, now I am happy

Read the posts above

Its not passed on in genes.​

 

[chocolate m'scovy]

The eggs that are being used in this test are factory-laid eggs. The hens that lay those eggs eat tons of grain, and hence the relative unhealthiness of the eggs.

HOWEVER, put your chooks out on pasture, and let them eat grass and bugs. Their eggs will be TONS better for you than those eggs from cooped-up hens. Just look on their fresh, happy, perky yellow-orange yolks. MMMMMM.

Here's something I found on http://www.localharvest.org/pastured-eggs.jsp

Grass-fed/pastured hens are raised on pasture, as opposed to being kept in confinement and fed primarily grains. Eggs from pastured hens contain up to 20 times more healthy omega-3 fatty acids than those their less fortunate cousins, factory hens.

Pastured hens' diets are naturally complemented with bugs, earthworms, and other such critters that give their eggs a huge nutritious oomph. Although not necessarilly organic, pastured hens are usually much healthier and happier than their space-restricted and antibiotic-pumped industrial cousins.

Pasturing is the traditional method of raising egg-laying hens and other poultry. It is ecologically sustainable, humane, and produces the tastiest, most nutritious eggs.

Pastured eggs also have 10 percent less fat, 40 percent more vitamin A, and 34 percent less cholesterol than eggs obtained from factory farms.

OOOH YEAH!

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Ya know what? I honestly believe the cholesterol levels in pastured eggs are lower, because the hens hormones are not being screwed up by grain feeding and total lack of sunshine.....They are passing in the eggs what is going on in there bodies!

 

[chocolate m'scovy]

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To be sure! Healthy eggs come from healthy chooks. And chooks need some of the same things that we humans need to keep us happy and healthy: fresh air, sunshine, exercise, and vegetables.