/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6244170

What harvard says there has already been broken down in this thread. Harvard also still recommends not eating more than an egg a day, as their own studies have found eggs and dietary cholesterol in general to associate with heart failure and diabetes.

When people say eggs "aren't nutritious" it's more because they've seen the nutrient data for eggs and noticed that it's not a particularly good source of anything really. It has some riboflavin and some B12 that can't be absorbed properly, and that's about it. Combine that with the recommendations that severely limit the amount of eggs you can eat and you don't get much out of them. They're not completely bare of nutrients like a junk food, but they're not especially great either. They're just "food." It's like everyone's so caught up in saying how nutritious eggs are that nobody bothered to actually look at them

>eggs are NUTRITIONAL POWERHOUSES
>they contain VITAMINS, unlike other food!
>the egg industry told me so themselves!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtGf2FuzKo4

>>6116144

He also said all of the minerals in beans are blocked from absorption, which is of course stupid. Phytic acid can bind to a small fraction of minerals, is decreased by soaking and cooking, and is actually considered one of the healthy compounds responsible for decreasing cancer risk from eating whole grains and legumes

http://preventcancer.aicr.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7499&news_iv_ctrl=0&abbr=res_

The "eggs are a nutritional powerhouse" quote is also bullshit, and the few nutrients eggs do contain are outweighed by the negatives. Most health institutions allow no more than 1 egg a day due to the cholesterol concentration, so how much nutrition is that going to get you? A little boost to your riboflavin intake?

That article isn't very indepth, but yeah, it's an Egg Apologist article. "Eggs have a broad spectrum of nutrients" is a weasely thing to claim because every food has a broad spectrum of nutrients; that's what food is. It doesn't have a particularly large amount of anything though.

As for HDL canceling out the LDL increase, that's what people on the egg industry's payroll claim to make you think that the eggs raising your cholesterol isn't a big deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVqiv_7qJaI

>>5878358

>superfood

Another myth of egg industry marketing.

And it's not "suddenly bad for you," it's just that now we have the ability to study diet and health more closely and it turns out that a ball of saturated fat and cholesterol isn't very health-promoting, especially for your cardiovascular system

>>5799198

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Egg_Board

>>5782680
you were saying?

>>5762143

>I've just been trying to eat healthier, and lower my portion sizes.

Calorie restriction isn't a good way to eat healthier; the less food you eat, the less nutrients you get. Eat the right foods and the weight will come off naturally, without leaving you malnurished

>so I usually have a breakfast of 2 poached eggs

Eggs are not a healthy food though, they're just highly marketed to make you think they are. Try some oatmeal in the morning, some sweet potatoes for lunch, and a bean dish for dinner

>>5746609
>eating eggs at all

>>5730682

Go away, egg industry marketing team

>>5689356

>how are cow hormones unhealthy?

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/12.07/11-dairy.html

>Eggs are good for you if you don't eat a ton of them. 1 egg a day supplies like 60% of your cholesterol, and most of it is good cholesterol.

there's no such thing as "good cholesterol" in the diet, you're think of blood cholesterol, specifically HDL cholesterol. eggs are high in dietary cholesterol, but they don't "supply 60% of your required cholesterol," they have around 80-100% of the limit that health officials say you should be eating every day. if you eat one egg, you basically can't eat that dairy or the turkey either because they'll put you over the cholesterol limit. eggs aren't a particularly nutritious food, they're just very well marketed

and as for orange juice, juice by definition has no fiber. an orange is great, squeezing the juice out of an orange and drinking it is not