How many eggs can I eat a day?
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Many years ago Clarence Bass, author of the "Ripped" columns in M&F etc. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Bass - experimented with his diet.
He had blood tests regularly and found that by eating loads of eggs his cholesterol went up a bit, briefly but then quickly adjusted to normal levels and that he stayed within healthy levels of all sorts of levels/tests etc. whilst losing weight/fat (down to 2.4%) and managing to ingest enough protein to grow.
My cholesterol is low so I don't worry at all about eating as many as I want within my calorie limits.
He had blood tests regularly and found that by eating loads of eggs his cholesterol went up a bit, briefly but then quickly adjusted to normal levels and that he stayed within healthy levels of all sorts of levels/tests etc. whilst losing weight/fat (down to 2.4%) and managing to ingest enough protein to grow.
My cholesterol is low so I don't worry at all about eating as many as I want within my calorie limits.
This is an awesome online database for general food nutrition: http://nutritiondata.self.com
Main issue with Eggs is the yolk. Loads of nutrition but high in things like fat and cholesterol.
As a quick answer, a dietitian should say no more than 2 medium chicken eggs because of the cholesterol (180-ish mg = about 60% DV).
But it's never that simple. Recent findings say there is no a direct correlation between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol. Blood cholesterol tends to come from unused sat fats and badly reprocessed LDLs. But then eggs are high in sat fats as well. And not only that but it gets more vague when you consider it's not how much sat fat you eat that is bad, but the proportion of sat fats in your overall diet. And it gets even more compound when you factor in your genetics to deal with sat fats and how much exercise you do AND how well you process sat fats and cholesterol based on that exercise!
And that's just the quick answer!
And then there are diets that say eats nothing but eggs that have yet to be proven or disproven!
Huuuge can of worms when talking how many eggs.
Main issue with Eggs is the yolk. Loads of nutrition but high in things like fat and cholesterol.
As a quick answer, a dietitian should say no more than 2 medium chicken eggs because of the cholesterol (180-ish mg = about 60% DV).
But it's never that simple. Recent findings say there is no a direct correlation between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol. Blood cholesterol tends to come from unused sat fats and badly reprocessed LDLs. But then eggs are high in sat fats as well. And not only that but it gets more vague when you consider it's not how much sat fat you eat that is bad, but the proportion of sat fats in your overall diet. And it gets even more compound when you factor in your genetics to deal with sat fats and how much exercise you do AND how well you process sat fats and cholesterol based on that exercise!
And that's just the quick answer!
And then there are diets that say eats nothing but eggs that have yet to be proven or disproven!
Huuuge can of worms when talking how many eggs.
Huntsman said:
So I've decided to cut right down on carbs for a while to see what happens.
I'm having 2 rashers and 2 eggs fried in a little butter each morning.
Today I had a salad with tuna and a couple more eggs at lunchtime.
Mrs H says that 4 eggs in one day is too many?
A decent omelette takes four eggs, she surely isn't saying an omelette is going to kill you? What about a cheese omelette with butter? I'm having 2 rashers and 2 eggs fried in a little butter each morning.
Today I had a salad with tuna and a couple more eggs at lunchtime.
Mrs H says that 4 eggs in one day is too many?
It was nice knowing you. RIP.
Re. Clarence Bass, it seems he's changed his mind and approach back and forwards over the years, including back in the good old days when I used to read his columns.
The story is here:
http://www.cbass.com/Eggs.htm
The story is here:
http://www.cbass.com/Eggs.htm
RVVUNM said:
pilchardthecat said:
Pvapour said:
60 lge a week here (sans yolk mind)
at least i dont have to search our fields for them (yet)
What do you do with all the yolks you fat least i dont have to search our fields for them (yet)
king great weirdywierdo? (yolks are the best bit)
to become MORE POWERFULLY BUILT!! ARRRRGGH!!
hear you on the yolks but they are just thrown away
wish I could think of a better use tbh, bernaise sauce is one but defeats the object really 
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