We eat eggs every day. There are so many ways to prepare them. We have about 1 quiche and 1 frittata every week and a batch of deviled eggs each week. I absolutely love soft boiled eggs. We make a bunch of hard boiled eggs for a quick snack on the run. When we have them fried or an omelet we use olive or coconut oil. An egg is a nearly perfect food and the only animal protein that makes the body more alkaline rather than acidic. I've recently started considering foods in that light.
I drank fruit juice most of my life thinking I was getting good nutrition and only recently discovered what you said about the sugar content.
I've always been a bit of a nutrition Nazi. Back in the early 70s, I read the Adelle Davis books, 'Let's eat right to keep fit', 'Let's get well' and 'Let's have healthy children' and I still refer to them. Around the same time I read 'Sugar Blues'.
Something I read in the first book still sticks with me. She said there were several disparate societies around the world that have no heart disease, no cancer, no diabetes, no mental illness, etc.. Their diets were quite different. One was an arctic people that ate only animal protein, another ate almost exclusively vegetation. There was only one commonality in all their diets. None of them ever ate any processed food. So over the last 40 years, I've slowly eliminated all processed foods. About 10 years ago I adopted a paleo diet, much of it raw. About a year ago I finally got my wife to consider it. She got a couple paleo diet and paleo cookbooks. She's embraced it mostly to lose weight and cooks most of her food. I knew she'd have to get the information from someone else since she's never believed anything I've said about it.
Since I was a teen, I haven't used sugar for anything except to make syrup for bees and hummingbirds. If I need a sweetener, I use honey or agave nectar. I haven't had a soft drink since the 70s. Going to the grocery store is a trip down the produce aisle, the meat aisle, the dairy aisle and out of the store. We rarely have bread any more. Bummer for my soft boiled egg addiction.
I might add that none of us have ever been on a regular medication. In fact, I haven't been to a doctor in about 7 years. That may not be a good thing, I'm just never sick any more.
I just wish the GMO labeling hadn't been voted down.
Some are brown on the inside, like Hangtown said, not as dark as the outside but clearly the pigment points are positioned earlier in the shell gland than on most brown eggs.
I figure until we fix our health issues we cannot fix the health care cost issues. A high portion of our health issues are food related but no one wants to talk about it!! Heart attacks, arthroschlerosis, diabetes II, gout, and too many more to list here are all based on foods (clearly tied to diet). I have a friend that has 2 kids with allergy issues, and they eat fast food all the time or out of cans. 3 times I have suggested looking at the diet- she justifies the eating because they are so busy . . . .Nothing faster than grabbing a cheese stick or an orange or an apple. My kids can fix a salad and down it in less than 10 minutes. Love the independence.
Sugar is a strange chemical--- my understanding is that it feeds cancer cells especially in the colon. Had my endoscopy long before 50 due to genetic testing results-- and have lots of questions for the doctor now that I am better informed. He only mentioned eating more fiber-- I'm planning to hit him up on the sugar. He better know the answer as he is at a teaching hospital!! OTherwise sugar and carbs are very inflammatory-- my arthritis flares up after a couple days of junk food eating. . . . .
Just for clarity not all carbs are bad We do need to consume whole foods with all the micronutrients and high anti oxidents etc. Nuts, berries, lots of low carb vegetables and a small portion of grains and starchy vegies. Hmmmm. just like Oz's meal!!!!
An apple and pulling a hard boiled egg from the fridge is much faster than waiting in line at the fast food place.
Sounds like a paleo diet.
We make pancakes out of almond butter, applesauce, eggs and some blueberries. They were a little strange the first time but I like them much better now.
We use coconut oil for several things. It's a virgin coconut oil hand processed from organic coconuts in the Philippines and very high in antioxidants.
It doesn't have to be refrigerated. It solidifies below 76F so I'm careful not to discard the used oil down the drain. I envision it coating the pipes.
I like grape seed oil for things that require high heat like popcorn.
My Welsummers' eggs dark color was clearly on the outside and I could rub it off. That doesn't mean they all are.
It depends on where in the shell gland the pigment is applied.
