We knew that eggs are good for us!!!

[aart]

I ignored it when they first came out with all that nonsense, and I ignored it when they decided they might have been a bit hasty.

Absolutely!!
Everything in moderation...especially believing any 'food' statistics in the media.

 

[donrae]

FWIW that article is 2 years old......the egg/butter cholesterol myth was busted more than several years ago.
..and yes, yay butter!

I sure thought so, until I had a Locust go through some type of Healthy Eating class at the high school. I swear, they were teaching them right out of 1986 or something. Fat is the devil, saturated fats or anything from animals is going to kill you dead right there, the only meat that's good to eat is boneless skinless chicken breast....it was horrible.

I made my very own, quite unscientific decision about cholesterol levels being more genetic and not related to food intake years ago when working in a nursing home. We had a few ladies who were at the point where the didn't eat anything a staff member didn't feed them. They were on low cholesterol, vegetarian diets. And their cholesterol levels consistently came back high. Simply had to be genetics, it sure wasn't diet.

 

[Beekissed]

I agree. And it's even more than genetics but a general health issue, wherein the health of certain organs in the digestive tract will cause high cholesterol temporarily. My mother was suffering from liver stones, backing bile up into her pancreas and causing pancreatitis and hepatitis. During those years, her cholesterol was off the charts and no meds could bring it down....it was even throwing her into congestive heart failure. She was one of the most healthy eating and active people I knew...no fats, blah, blah, blah.

As soon as she got rid of the liver stones, everything else went back to normal and she hasn't had high cholesterol, CHF, pancreatitis or hepatitis since then. She had started eating a raw diet and also started deliberately eating certain fats~olive oil, nuts, etc. and everything went back to normal.

 

[Blooie]

I have Familial Hypercholesterolemia. I could take meds, eat nothing but garlic and drink nothing but water and mine would still be high! We (Ken, the cardiologist and me) were over the moon when mine dropped into the 400 range and I can't get the good cholesterol numbers up. It's just how things are and leaving my much-loved butter and eggs in the dust ain't gonna change it anyway. If the good Lord didn't want us to eat butter 'n eggs, He shouldn't have made them taste so good!

 

[donrae]

 

[burkechicken]

Oh man I eat over a dozen a week. Wonder if that is still moderation?

 

[lazy gardener]

Oh man I eat over a dozen a week. Wonder if that is still moderation?

I eat an egg every single day for breakfast. Sometimes 2 if they are pullet eggs. Then there's the occasional breakfast for supper, quiche, or any of the other eggs in cooking, so... I most likely eat close to a dozen/week. Ain't gonna change my style for any survey. My doc wanted to put me on antichol. med a few years ago, back when they started saying that anything over ?150 needed treatment. I declined. Last year, she said that the standards had been revised, and I was now in a "do not treat" category. Really? I still wouldn't have taken any med!

 

[Spartan22]

I eat 3-4 eggs a day after morning run

before work, I've never tried raw or runny eggs tho, I don't want it to come back up

. Let's see if my cholesterol will be high when I reach my 30th Bday.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Okay, stupid question here lol

Is that like 4 eggs total a week? So like one a day?

Because when I make scrambled eggs, I usually make three or four eggs, fried I usually only make two. So that's the total about right there in one meal

It does say there's no benefit to more than four though... hmmm.. I also wonder if it is better to have one or two every day for 4 days or better to have like all four at once once a week..

It is interesting though, especially the full fat part.

 

[lazy gardener]

Okay, stupid question here lol

Is that like 4 eggs total a week? So like one a day?

Because when I make scrambled eggs, I usually make three or four eggs, fried I usually only make two. So that's the total about right there in one meal

It does say there's no benefit to more than four though... hmmm.. I also wonder if it is better to have one or two every day for 4 days or better to have like all four at once once a week..

It is interesting though, especially the full fat part.

I think you're over thinking it. Simply enjoy your eggs! The study wasn't broken down into frequency.