Let's talk about eggs

[tiggerific]

^^^ are you guys body building or something, I have heard a lot of guys who do gym work eat a lot of eggs.

 

[aanallein]

ya eggs are a staple for muscle building because they are a cheap protein source, easy to prepare and eat, and have a lot of vitamins and minerals. On top of all that, the male body converts cholesterol into testosterone and eggs have plenty.

 

[theartofwar]

casein protein at night for me, bodybuilding is a game of nutrients. Get the right source of BCAA's and you grow better, recover faster etc...

 

[tremours]

i think one my favorite breakfests would have to be a couple of eggs over easy mixed up in some fried rice. I got in the habit of eating this when i was working at a casino. Its to bad i cant realy find any places that offer it. I heard they actualy serve it at jack in the box in hawaii though.

 

[Damien]

My favorite way to eat eggs is to mix them up with some butter, salt, sugar, flour, vanilla, baking soda and some chocolate chips. Throw those eggs in the oven for 9 minutes @ 375 degrees F. Yummy!

 

[n3ophy7e]

^^ I see what you did there

 

[Cane2theLeft]

I haven't been following all of this thread, but I saw this article on huffington post and thought it might be pertinent -

NSFW:

USDA: Eggs' Cholesterol Lower Than Thought, Vitamin D Higher

David Katz, M.D.

Director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center
Posted: February 8, 2011 06:01 PM


The USDA announced today that eggs are significantly lower in cholesterol than previously thought. And, by the way, they are also quite a bit higher in vitamin D.

All by itself, this is potentially important news, with wide implications for the American diet. The newly released 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, for instance, recommend a limit of 300mg of cholesterol per day for healthy adults, and 200mg per day for adults with, or at high risk for heart disease. The new, lower cholesterol content of eggs means that these guidelines could be met if healthy adults average between one and two eggs per day, while even adults with heart disease can come in under the guideline consuming an egg daily. (By the way, the reason eggs are now lower in cholesterol is not entirely clear, but likely relates to changes in the diets of hens. We are what we eat, and so are chickens ... and their eggs.)

But I consider news about less cholesterol to be just one entry among several that collectively go a long way toward full ... eggsoneration.

First, we were probably wrong about the harms of dietary cholesterol in the first place. Over the past decade or so, numerous studies -- both observational studies in large populations, and intervention trials in smaller ones -- have suggested that dietary cholesterol in general, and eggs in particular, do not contribute meaningfully to blood cholesterol levels, or cardiac risk. My own lab has contributed two such studies to the literature- one in which we saw no harms from two eggs daily in healthy adults; and another in which we saw no harm from two eggs daily in adults with high blood cholesterol.

We are currently running a trial to assess the effects of two eggs daily on health markers in adults with coronary heart disease, and are hypothesizing there will once again be no harms.

My interest in all this, by the way, does not derive from the fact that I have three egg-laying hens living in my backyard! (I do.) Rather, I am interested in being right about means of optimizing health through optimizing diet.

In the case of 'eggs'clusion, I once believed it was right -- and banished eggs from my own diet for the better part of 20 years. But I watched the science as it evolved, and did what scientists are supposed to do: kept pace with it. I have reintroduced eggs back into my own diet, and into the advice I offer patients.

One of the operative words in the above paragraph is 'evolved,' because evolutionary biology is part of this story as well. Paleo-anthropologists who study our ancestral diet tell us, in essence, that we are well adapted to consume dietary cholesterol. Our Stone Age ancestors got cholesterol from eggs, as well as bone marrow and organ meats- so cholesterol is 'native' to the human diet. Saturated fat is far less so, being rather rare in nature; and the trans fat produced when oils are partially hydrogenated is truly alien, and thus predictably a bad actor.

There is one final addition to the defense of eggs. Foods we don't eat have implications for foods we do. So banishing eggs begs the question: what do we typically eat instead?

To my knowledge, there has been no systematic study of this. But I have seen coronary care units that scrupulously avoid serving eggs to their patients provide them trays of pancakes, or waffles, or white toast, and so on. I certainly have patients who have avoided eggs, but not thought twice about eating donuts, Danish, bagels, and such.

What we don't eat has implications for what we do, and I think it very likely that general advice to avoid eggs actually served to lower overall diet quality -- by increasing intake of refined starches and added sugars. We have a study protocol currently under review that will examine the question: do you wind up with better overall diet quality and health with advice to exclude, or include, eggs? You know which way I'm betting.

I hasten to add that a diet can certainly be optimal without including eggs. (If people swapped out egg breakfasts for mixed berries, walnuts, and oatmeal -- I would have no objection; but I have not seen much of that!) A balanced vegan diet, for example, is a powerful force for good health.

But well-informed and dedicated vegans are a vanishingly small part of the population. Most Americans, and much of the world's population, eat mixed diets in which eggs are not taboo. Eggs have been avoided by members of these groups not because of cultural prohibitions, but in an attempt to avoid a concentrated source of dietary cholesterol, and its potential harms.

We have long had cause to reconsider the harms of dietary cholesterol; they are, at most, feeble and uncommon -- and there is a good chance they are truly negligible, or simply don't exist. We have also long known that eggs, other than their cholesterol content, are extremely nutritious overall -- rich in top quality protein, vitamins, minerals, and other important nutrients such as biotin and choline. As of today, we also know that eggs are a less concentrated source of cholesterol than they once were into the bargain.

There, then, is the case for eggsoneration. The defense rests.

Dr. David L. Katz; www.davidkatzmd.com

www.turnthetide foundation.org

 

[Pegasus]

^Thanks for that post... It makes sense.

 

[MynameisnotDeja]

This morning I had a really yummy egg scramble.

3 eggs
5 garlic cloves, diced up
1/2 cup ground turkey (I'd already cooked this and spiced it with chili powder, paprika, salt and pepper the night before)
1/2 cup sliced baby portabella mushrooms
a few spoonfuls of coconut oil

I melted the coconut oil and browned the garlic, shroomies and the turkey. Then in a separate cup I mixed up the eggs and added more paprika, salt and chili powder. I added it and cooked it til the eggs were slightly brown.

I ate the whole thing myself. Was a good bunch of calories and protein on top of the nutrients I got in my two glasses of pineapple/orange/avocado smoothie I had a few minutes before. Mmmm... calories. I'm a 110 pound girl and I eat like a 500 pound bodybuilder I love it, lol.

Eggs rock.

 

[swilow]

me too but no roosters? I dunno much about it can the hens lay without a rooster? You just wont get fertilized eggs is my understanding (if you got no cock)

You just wanted to write "cock".

Eggs are great; organic, free range only. When I first had an egg straight from the chicken (so to speak) I was shocked at how different the taste and appearance were. The taste almost put me off, but now I am used to them, and can tell if the eggs been born in torment or not.

As a vegetarian, eggs are essential to me and my Miss Willow.

 

[L2R]

willy, you should try egg which is still in the chicken. i've had this a few times over in china, where our relos have wild, not even free range but WILD, chickens around. stunning flavour.

hot water on wild chicken meat tastes like it's full of stock.

 

[atara]

There are many, many other ways to get protein in, without all the extra cholesterol and just the ickiness that you associate with it. [...]

I wouldn't eat a few every day. Don't go overboard. One a day is fine, but after that, it's a lot of extra cholesterol.

I am so fucking tired of this myth. Let's lay it to goddamn rest.

http://www.unisci.com/stories/20014/1029013.htm

http://www.ajcn.org/content/30/5/664.abstract

http://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/0021-9150(85)90134-0/abstract

Note that in some subjects, egg consumption actually decreases serum cholesterol! It is, yes, idiosyncratic, and in other subjects there was an increase. The effect of egg consumption on serum cholesterol was statistically insignificant in both studies (note that the uncertainty is larger than the mean) -- it's long been known that eggs don't contribute much cholesterol to diet.

Eggs are not a major contributing factor to cholesterol levels with reasonable consumption.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/281/15/1387.abstract

http://www.ajcn.org/content/36/4/617.abstract

we found no evidence of an overall significant association between egg consumption and risk of CHD or stroke in either men or women.

Or, for that matter, risk of heart disease or stroke.

 

[McTwist]

I have to chime in since I eat eggs every morning.

This morning's skillet consisted of:

3 brown eggs
1/4cup turnip
1/2cup green pepper
1/4cup tomato
1/2cup onion
1 chopped scallion
1 slice Am. cheese

It was wonderful, like always. I usually warm up the veggies so to be sure as to not overcook them. Usually I mix in about 1 - 3tbsp of hemp seeds in the yolk, but since I'm running low I've started rationing them. I'm not sure if this is damaging to the seeds' "goodies" or not.

As my cooking method is pretty consistent, I am now thinking about adding a few spices into the yolk (like chili powder, maybe fresh parsley) to spice it up a bit. After all I have been eating the same breakfast for nearly a year now and I'd like to add some variance to my omelets.

 

[MynameisnotDeja]

Sounds good!

 

[swilow]

I have to chime in since I eat eggs every morning.

This morning's skillet consisted of:

3 brown eggs
1/4cup turnip
1/2cup green pepper
1/4cup tomato
1/2cup onion
1 chopped scallion
1 slice Am. cheese

It was wonderful, like always. I usually warm up the veggies so to be sure as to not overcook them. Usually I mix in about 1 - 3tbsp of hemp seeds in the yolk, but since I'm running low I've started rationing them. I'm not sure if this is damaging to the seeds' "goodies" or not.

As my cooking method is pretty consistent, I am now thinking about adding a few spices into the yolk (like chili powder, maybe fresh parsley) to spice it up a bit. After all I have been eating the same breakfast for nearly a year now and I'd like to add some variance to my omelets.

Sounds yummo. Just curious; why hemp seeds?

 

[sandman_i_am]

I love eggs. In the morning I usually have one scrambled egg with some breakfast sausage or pork roll. Either that or I just have two eggs. Sometimes I make them into an omelette. I find that hard-boiled eggs are a good snack to go along with my lunch or to have later in the day. If I get hungry later in the evening I find that a hard-boiled egg satisfies my hunger pretty well, and it's very low in calories.

If you like hard-boiled eggs, you might want to give egg salad a go. All you need to start with are a few hard-boiled eggs. You can find a good recipe online. They're all pretty much the same and it's very simple to prepare. You just need some mayonnaise and mustard (whatever kind you like) in addition to the hard-boiled eggs. You can season it however you like and maybe put some onions and celery into it. It's a convenient meal because you can eat it as a sandwich in a pinch.

As my cooking method is pretty consistent, I am now thinking about adding a few spices into the yolk (like chili powder, maybe fresh parsley) to spice it up a bit. After all I have been eating the same breakfast for nearly a year now and I'd like to add some variance to my omelets.

I highly recommend that you experiment with some spices in your omelettes. I do this with scrambled eggs and egg salad. A little bit of Mrs. Dash seasoning blend does wonders and makes it a wee bit spicy. You could also just put some black pepper into your eggs. Just add in your spices while you're cooking the eggs in the frying pan or while you're scrambling them. If you do them sunny side up or a bit runny just sprinkle the spices on top of them.

 

[lostNfound]

Why didn't I see this thread before!!

I love eggs, I get them fresh from my garden everyday

I tend to have mine scrambled mostly, 3 eggs on two slices of sour dough with rock salt and some cracked pepper and loads of tomato sauce.

So tasty

Need new pics though, no facial hair now + shorter hair and I've losta few kay gees

My chooks are the coolest pets.

 

[belarki]

^ naawww chickens and a puppy :D

... and now to turn everyone off eggs... *drumroll*

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Balut

Just kidding, I still love eggs but you couldn't pay me to eat that!

 

[lostNfound]

That looks soooo wrong.

 

[MynameisnotDeja]

That's your backyard LnF? Insanely cool, dude!

Your little friends are adorable. I can't wait to have a set up like that one day.