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The main thing in question is the cholesterol-containing yolk which can, once again, increase your risk of heart disease. Not too long ago they told us that dietary cholesterol, especially egg yolk, wasn't a concern because dietary cholesterol (the cholesterol found in foods) doesn't affect blood cholesterol (the cholesterol produced by the body) and we shouldn't be scared of them.

I'm REALLY tired of all this back & forth ridiculousness with the foods we eat. One day something is healthful for you, the next day not so much. Bad for you, good for you, bad for you, good for you...

You'd think they would have all of this stuff sorted by now. I'm tired of consuming certain foods, assuming they're good for me, only to find out I shouldn't be eating them. At least not on a regular basis. But I know people who do eat eggs on a regular basis because we were told to "eat up!"

I often wonder if there are conspiracies behind these stories :huh:
 
Don't let the science media jerk you around like that. Too many journalists report superficially on the results of various studies and don't emphasize enough whether they're preliminary or limited in time or scope. They're not necessarily something that means you have to change your diet.

We do know pretty well what we should eat. I love this doctor's take on it.
Feeding Homo Sapiens: Are We Truly as Clueless as We Seem?

I would like to think that this is the New Year we situate ourselves sensibly among the panoply of creatures who eat as they fundamentally should. But instead, 2013 draws to a close with a whole new crop of iconoclastic dietary diatribe.

David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
12/19/2013 11:51am ET*| Updated February 18, 2014

If you happen to have tropical fish -- and I'm not saying you do, I'm just saying somebody does -- you feed them. If you have tropical fish and you don't feed them, it isn't long before they are, well, feeding the fish, if you know what I mean. Creatures eat or they die.

Since you (or the other guy) do feed your tropical fish, it seems to imply, ipso facto, that you know what to feed them. Hold that thought.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the ranchers know what to feed their horses. And then there are those remarkable zookeepers, who seem to know what to feed just about anybody. Their charges, after all, range from koala bears to gibbons to giant pandas to lions, tigers, bears, owls, pythons, hyenas and spiny anteaters (well, that last one is something of a give-away at feeding time, admittedly). All of these critters get fed or they suffer the fate of those tropical fish you starved to death two paragraphs ago.

I suppose there may be some obscure scientific literature on the intractable controversies of degustative zoology, but I have never found it. To the best of my knowledge, there are no such fierce debates about how to feed koala bears. There seems instead to be a prevailing acceptance that whatever the quirks and idiosyncrasies of individual koala bears, to say nothing of spiny anteaters, they are in fact all members of the same species, adapted to the same basic diet, and should dine accordingly. And so, without great contention or randomized clinical trials, it's eucalyptus leaves all around.

Yes, I am making the humbling point that we are creatures, too. We have a unique Homo sapiens arrogance that induces us to speak of nature and ourselves as separate things. But we are a product of this world as much as any other species. And we are, indeed, a species. Differ though we may from one another, we are all substantially the same. We all stand on the same basic bedrock of biology. We are the same kind of creature as one another.

We are a species. In light of our capacity to feed essentially every other species on the planet appropriately -- how plausible is it, really, that we are as clueless as we seem about feeding ourselves?

That we do seem clueless doesn't seem to require much argument. First, there is the flagrant support of modern epidemiology. Both obesity and diet-related chronic disease are rampant, suggesting we either don't know what we're doing, or don't do what we're knowing. Second, search for dietary guidance by any means you like and you will topple into such a vast cacophony of competing contentions that it makes the vituperative U.S. Congress seem like the Vienna Boys Choir.

Folks, believe it or not, we are not clueless about the basic care and feeding of Homo sapiens. We are not hopelessly lost and confused, despite the popular diet book that blames it all on meat, competing with the popular diet book that blames it all on wheat, competing with the popular diet book that blames it on just sugar, competing with the popular diet book that says all grains suck.

Some months ago, I was privileged with an invitation to write a scholarly paper for the peer-reviewed journal "Annual Review of Public Health," entitled "Can We Say What Diet Is Best for Health?" The paper, which comes out in March, has a bibliography with 167 entries, representing a wide array of sources about diverse diets, reviewed with an earnest attempt at dispassionate objectivity. Even this long list of citations is a drop in the proverbial bucket, and is truncated at 167 because the journal had no space for more. I, along with a team of assistants, am now nearing completion of the third edition of my nutrition textbook for health professionals, "Nutrition in Clinical Practice," and that source will have between 7,000 and 10,000 references, all in service of the same goal: establishing the facts about diet and health.

Those facts, derived from modern research, historical experience and evolutionary biology alike all support a clearly established theme of healthful eating for Homo sapiens rather well expressed by Michael Pollan as: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." With stunning consistency, a vast literature exploring diverse cultures, dietary patterns, and health outcomes, returns again and again to this theme. Off the reservation are highly processed, glow-in-the-dark foods. Always on are vegetables, fruits, beans, legumes, nuts and seeds. Almost universal are whole grains. Lean meats, fish, seafood and dairy come and go with variations on the theme, but there is clearly room for them for those so inclined.

In fact, it's a beautifully commodious scenario. The basic theme of optimal eating is quite clearly established, while the best variant on that theme most certainly is not -- leaving each of us where we belong, holding the oven mitt. Variations on the theme allow us to invoke the common principles of healthful eating, while making personalized choices conducive to loving the food that loves us back. Variations on the theme readily accommodate your choice of a vegetarian, low-glycemic, Mediterranean, Asian or Paleo diet.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/diet-and-nutrition_n_4472930
 
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Interesting article, thank you for sharing.

Personally, I've always been on the side of paying attention to reports such as these, but taking them with a grain of salt. I believe in the word "moderation" and that's a rule I've always followed. Although I am tired of the ups & downs of what's good for you and what's not (I get especially angry at the demonization of carby foods, particularly potatoes) I still eat the alleged 'bad' foods, just not all the time. I try to eat properly most of the time, but I don't think the occasional pizza, bacon sandwich or piece of fried chicken is going to kill anyone.

Will I continue to eat eggs? Of course I will. But I don't eat them regularly to begin with. I like the occasional plate of scrambled and I love hard-boiled eggs as snacks.
 
Personally, I've always been on the side of paying attention to reports such as these, but taking them with a grain of salt. I believe in the word "moderation" and that's a rule I've always followed. Although I am tired of the ups & downs of what's good for you and what's not (I get especially angry at the demonization of carby foods, particularly potatoes) I still eat the alleged 'bad' foods, just not all the time. I try to eat properly most of the time, but I don't think the occasional pizza, bacon sandwich or piece of fried chicken is going to kill anyone.

Will I continue to eat eggs? Of course I will. But I don't eat them regularly to begin with. I like the occasional plate of scrambled and I love hard-boiled eggs as snacks.
I'm the same, so I don't pay much attention to the news about this or that diet, so it doesn't bother me when some article says something about this or that.

Also, I studied marketing in college and wrote a paper on the psychology of marketing - how they use psychology to make things seem desirable or necessary in order to increase sales. I think that inoculated me against the manipulative nature of marketing.

I go through stages of what I like to eat for breakfast. Often it's dinner leftovers, but sometimes I make a quiche with lots of veggies and eat that, with fruit, for several days. In the summer, I like a traditional Turkish breakfast with yogurt with honey and nuts, sliced cucumber and tomato and a hard-boiled egg. Or scrambled eggs with homemade bread. But in general, it's whole food processed only by me [emoji2]
 
Interesting article, thank you for sharing.

Personally, I've always been on the side of paying attention to reports such as these, but taking them with a grain of salt. I believe in the word "moderation" and that's a rule I've always followed. Although I am tired of the ups & downs of what's good for you and what's not (I get especially angry at the demonization of carby foods, particularly potatoes) I still eat the alleged 'bad' foods, just not all the time. I try to eat properly most of the time, but I don't think the occasional pizza, bacon sandwich or piece of fried chicken is going to kill anyone.

Will I continue to eat eggs? Of course I will. But I don't eat them regularly to begin with. I like the occasional plate of scrambled and I love hard-boiled eggs as snacks.

Pretty well sums it up for me too.
Commen sense should prevail.
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GG, thank you for the link to that article. He states it well. I was in a quandary about what to write as a reply in this thread other than, "don't panic".
 
Shock media always get the headlines. They tell you eggs are bad, eggs are OK and eggs are fine, help yourself. They do so boldly and without embarrassment over the fact that they just told you the opposite last year.

I am personally fed up with media food experts who tell me eggs, coffee, meat, wheat and chicken feet are good, bad or indifferent.

I no longer give a crap. I stand with Just Cooking, my attitude is, "leave me the BLEEP alone, I'm 74 and I eat what I want."

At this age, how much of a difference will what I eat make in the time I have left? Don't tell me, I don't care.

Rant over.
 
Doesn't mean a thing to me either at my age.

Eggs have always been a part of my diet no matter how they've been perceived. The consistent fact is that eggs have always been a great source of convenient inexpensive pure protein. That's a good thing.
 
A warm runny egg yolk is one of the most luxurious, decadent things you can put into your mouth. When I fry eggs for myself, I toss most of the white away and eat what's left. Egg whites are what you put up with to get those yolks.
 
A warm runny egg yolk is one of the most luxurious, decadent things you can put into your mouth. When I fry eggs for myself, I toss most of the white away and eat what's left. Egg whites are what you put up with to get those yolks.

I have a couple of those tiny T-Fal One Egg Wonder fry pans.... They're perfect for egg muffin sandwiches which I make often for breakfast. And I like my eggs runny too.

+3! I love poached eggs with nice runny yolks.
 
I agree with everyone. I just get tired of these people pushing their agendas and scaring the public with their nonsensical gibberish. We may not take it to heart, but a lot of people do. I guarantee you there are folks out there tossing out the eggs from their fridge and who will stop buying them altogether.

A warm runny egg yolk is one of the most luxurious, decadent things you can put into your mouth. When I fry eggs for myself, I toss most of the white away and eat what's left. Egg whites are what you put up with to get those yolks.

Oh I so agree. Unfortunately, I can't eat them like that anymore. Ever since I was pregnant with my son, I became allergic to any part of the egg that isn't thoroughly cooked. Even if the yolk is slightly under done, my throat itches and swells and I have to take an antihistamine to get it to stop. It makes me so sad because there's nothing better than busting open an egg yolk and letting it run freely over everything else on your plate, dipping your toast into it, etc.

My son wanted Eggs Benedict one day last week and making it and looking at it was pure torture.
 
I have a couple of those tiny T-Fal One Egg Wonder fry pans.... They're perfect for egg muffin sandwiches which I make often for breakfast. And I like my eggs runny too.

I have 3 of those :LOL:

They defeinitely are perfect for muffin sandwiches. I just have to make sure the entire egg is thoroughly cooked before eating it, per my post above.

I also have one of those breakfast sandwich makers. That does a good job as well.
 
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