/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5893925]

so I got an email that linked me to this article.

What are your thoughts on this? Are eggs good or bad for you? Is this just more egg industry propaganda?

link to article: http://dietanalytics.com/articles/eggs-arent-as-bad-as-they-are-cracked-up-to-be.html/?source=mail&emd5=336c078fa64a8e397e8f73c63e2946e8&token=000000073945e2c

[Anonymous No.5893929]

>>5893925
Eggs are a superfood. Anyone who says otherwise is obviously a complete idiot and shall be treated as such.

[Anonymous No.5893935]

its 2014 and people still are surprised by how good eggs are?!

I thought we were done with this shit like 10 years ago

[Anonymous No.5893945]

>>5893935
>>5893929
Yes, and dairy is also a superfood! Be sure to get your 4 servings a day!

[Anonymous No.5893952]

>>5893925
if you eat bad rotten old eggs you might get salmonella
if you eat 10 eggs per day you get too much of that bad cholesterole stuff
if you eat eggs from a laying battery you are an evil person

absolutely nothing wrong with eating eggs though apart from that

[Anonymous No.5893957]

I treat eggs just how I treat meat. It's good for you if it comes from happy, well fed, healthy, animals.

That also means 90% of eggs are garbage tier and I refuse to eat them, just like meat.

I only eat animal products I get from local farmers/butchers I trust and know treat their animals well. That means no-GMO, vegetarian feed. Pasture raised (lots of sunlight and exercise). Healthy animals.

[Anonymous No.5893960]

>>5893945
Meh, dairy is great and all, but not necessary like eggs are.

[Anonymous No.5894024]

>>5893957
This post literally drove me into drink. You are the king of trolls.

[Anonymous No.5894041]

>>5894024
If you think it's a troll, I really do pity you. There is a huge difference in taste alone between healthy chicken eggs and normal, factory farmed eggs. The yolks are much, much richer. healthy animals with a natural diet produce healthier products, as well.

[Anonymous No.5894064]

eggs r gud

>>5894024
what's wrong with that post

[Anonymous No.5894098]

>>5893957
>I treat eggs just how I treat meat. It's good for you if it comes from happy, well fed, healthy, animals.


What a bunch of stupid feel good hippie bullshit.
I hope you are not over 20.
Grow the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.5894115]

>>5894041
>am not troll kek

[Anonymous No.5894124]

>>5893929
inb4 bacon and sriracha are considered super foods

[Anonymous No.5894757]

>>5894041
this is all true. with eggs it is very easy to see differences and the taste is worlds apart. I don't even eat eggs anymore and I know this, god forbid people who eat eggs everyday don't know this

[Anonymous No.5894811]

>>5893925
i fuckin love eggs. and i can never say what is the best style i fuckin love em so much

[Anonymous No.5894814]

>>5894041

Most farmed chickens are vegetarian. Real chickens eat lots of insects. The difference affects the food they produce.

>mfw egg companies try to use vegetarian fed as a selling point

[Anonymous No.5894893]

>>5893957
even if you are right you are still pulling hyperbolic shit out of your ass. I grew up in Kentucky and had a fuckload of chickens growing up. They just wandered around eating crickets and shit and yeah, the eggs they made were tasty.
But now I'm living in Boston with three roomates and I clearly dont have room for chickens. I had store bought eggs only the first time in my life a couple years ago and they were fucking fine. True, not as good as homegrown maybe, but far from this black and white difference you're making it out to be. That other anon put it very well.

feel good. hippy. bullshit. stop trying to climb on that high horse and walk with the rest of us.

[Anonymous No.5894907]

>>5894893

Why don't you climb up with him?

[Anonymous No.5894974]

>>5894893
This. My family has some hobby chickens, mainly just for the eggs. They're good, but almost imperceptibly better than storebought. In a blind taste test I doubt I could guess which was which

[Anonymous No.5895216]

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

[Anonymous No.5895220]

>>5893957

> It's good for you if it comes from happy, well fed, healthy, animals.

The problem is the eggs and meat have inherent qualities that are there regardless of whether the animal they came from was happy

[Anonymous No.5895308]

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[Anonymous No.5895319]

>>5893925
Eggs are delicious.
/thread.

[Anonymous No.5895327]

>>5895308

It can be a hard subject to find agreement on because on one hand you have a powerful industry pushing its products as well as people who enjoy eggs and want to believe they're healthy, and traditionalists who think anything natural is good by default, and on the other hand you have doctors and scientists trying to warn people about the dangers of saturated fat and cholesterol. One side is much louder than the other, and the doctor side has the disadvantage of telling people things they may not want to hear, so people are more likely to ignore them.

This is why diet books like Atkins Diet Revolution can sell millions of copies even though practically every doctor in the world rejects its claims. There's a lot of money to be made in making false claims about foods that people enjoy. Eventually you're going to see websites touting the benefits of "all-natural, grass-fed ice cream"

[Anonymous No.5895356]

>>5895220

Yeah, good qualities. I don't understand how anyone could believe eggs are anything but a powerful punch of dense nutrition. I mean think about what an egg actually is.

[Anonymous No.5895364]

>>5895327

>Yeah, good qualities.

Good qualities generally don't lead to plaque formation in your arteries

>I don't understand how anyone could believe eggs are anything but a powerful punch of dense nutrition.

See >>5895216

Even in a universe where eggs were actually nutritious, the negative aspects cancel it out. Poison ivy may be high in vitamin C, but it doesn't make it a good thing to eat

[Anonymous No.5895367]

>>5895364

Oops, quoted the wrong post >>5895356

[Anonymous No.5895387]

>>5895364

2g of satured fat? Even assuming that it's so bad for you, the daily recommended intake is 20g

[Anonymous No.5895406]

>>5895364

Also look up nutrient bioavailability works

[Anonymous No.5895414]

>>5895387

2g of saturated fat per egg and between 175-275mg of cholesterol. There's no "recommended intake" of saturated fat, there's only a "please don't eat more than this" limit, which still isn't necessarily ideal for health, but rather a compromise that takes into account what the general public is likely to adhere to

[Anonymous No.5895418]

>>5895406

Good point. The vitamin B12 in eggs for example is almost completely unable to be absorbed.

[Anonymous No.5895425]

>>5895418

Not sure to be honest about the truth of that but you're cherry picking nonetheless

[Anonymous No.5895427]

>>5893925
YEAH, OP, LISTEN TO ALL THESE PEOPLE, EGGS ARE BAAAAAAD FOR YOU. EAT BACON INSTEAD.

[Anonymous No.5895435]

In the UK the gov/egg board (whatever), ran ads back in the 50/60s "going to work on an egg"

Anyway, I do find that too many of them binds me up and I can't poo.

[Anonymous No.5895442]

>>5895425

I disagree. Also look up "phytochemicals." Keeping the same egg vs bread comparison, here's an article about the anti-oxidant, anti-cancer compounds found in various grains

http://omicsonline.org/whole-grain-cereal-bioactive-compounds-and-their-health-benefits-a-review-2157-7110.1000146.pdf

That wheat bread comes with potent anti-oxidants like ferulic acid and phytic acid and can decrease your risk of several cancers, while the eggs do the opposite.

A bowl of oatmeal is an even better breakfast, and the anti-inflammatory avenanthramides found in oats are known to decrease oxidation of LDL cholesterol and protect your arteries from plaque build-up, whereas eggs do the opposite of that as well

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15173412
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9001684

[Anonymous No.5895446]

Haha I eat 20 eggs a week since over a decade and had a blood check last month, it's absolutely perfect. BRB making some deviled eggs (with mayo, GASP!) before jogging, you sickly vegfags keep posting your butthurt and veganliving.com or whatever "sources" on how baaaaad real food countless creatures have been eating for thousands of years is.

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[Anonymous No.5895452]

>>5895446

>science is DUMB! I like eggs!

Someone wrangle this tard back into his stable

[Anonymous No.5895476]

>>5895452

[Anonymous No.5897543]

>>5895446

Fine, eat your eggs and be an obnoxious twat. There's nothing wrong with wanting to know with certainty the nutritional quality of the food you eat. Why settle for ignorance?

[Anonymous No.5898632]

>>5893957
>no-GMO
Congratulations, you and your hippie bullshit are holding back a second green revolution. You've automatically been placed on the list of people who get eaten first when rapidly growing population outstrips our ability to grow crops.
By the way, "organic" food is much, much worse for the environment. It uses more pesticides, because organic pesticides are less efficient than synthetic. Its also roughly 50% less efficient than conventional farming, so is terrible in terms of land use. Widescale organic farming would wreck the earths biodiversity.
Seriously, go read a book. GMO's are a much better solution, even if we get our shit together and give vertical farming a serious shot.

[Anonymous No.5898646]

>>5898632
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/07/organic-farms-produce-same-yields-conventional-farms

>Organic farming approaches for these crops not only use an average of 30 percent less fossil energy but also conserve more water in the soil, induce less erosion, maintain soil quality and conserve more biological resources than conventional farming does, Pimentel added.