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Interesting, also interesting that this is a 9 year old article. I'm surprised that the elderly are noted as not getting enough sulfur, because I believe eggs
by fencepost 10y ago
Interesting, also interesting that this is a 9 year old article.
I'm surprised that the elderly are noted as not getting enough sulfur, because I believe eggs are a good source and (barring incidents like the avian disease outbreak last year) are a generally inexpensive source of protein as well.
- e40 10y agoMy experience is that older people fear eggs because of the bad campaign against them in the 80s (70s?).
- jandrese 10y agoCan't eat eggs, they have cholesterol! It is somewhat depressing how much of the stuff we have done "for health reasons" ends up being less healthy than the original.
- nibs 10y agoCholesterol is good but the antinutrients in egg whites are not ideal. Egg yolks are extremely good for you though.
- noir_lord 10y agoWhat is an 'antinutrient'?. Googling antinutrient with egg whites seems to bring up relatively few highly spurious 'paleo' type sites.
- Practicality 10y agoAnything that interferes with the absorption of nutrients. Most commonly they would be inhibitors of the catalysts that break down foods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinutrient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinutrient But yes, the paleo theories mostly focus on it having some kind of effect on your stomach lining. It's a bit speculative. It seems they all point to this discussion as the original source: http://thepaleodiet.blogspot.com/2010/01/paleo-diet-q-29-january-2010-update-on.html http://thepaleodiet.blogspot.com/2010/01/paleo-diet-q-29-jan...
- SubiculumCode 10y agoAll those egg eating dinosaurs really had it coming didn't they?
- mrob 10y agoRaw eggs contain the anti-nutrient avidin, a protein that binds to biotin, making it unavailable as vitamin. If you eat large quantities of raw egg you could theoretically become biotin deficient. Cooking destroys the avidin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidin Additionally, the protein in raw eggs is poorly absorbed, which could be because of other unidentified anti-nutrients. Again, cooking solves the problem: http://jn.nutrition.org/content/128/10/1716.full http://jn.nutrition.org/content/128/10/1716.full
- magic_beans 10y agoYes, because people eat raw egg whites all the time. ........ .............................
- JBReefer 10y agoIt's big in Korea
- nicholas73 10y agoNot sure why you were downvoted, by I re-upped what I could for adding information. There are people who eat raw or undercooked eggs. Not just some fad diet either, in some countries it's mainstream. In Japan it's common to mix a raw egg into rice or soup... very tasty and their eggs have a deep rich color in their yolk too.
- robotmlg 10y agoGood thing no one eats raw eggs then
- hueving 10y agoSeriously! It's like someone complaining about hamburgers and then enumerating all of the problems with eating raw hamburger.
- mrob 10y agoPeople certainly do eat raw eggs. In the UK, the vast majority of eggs are from vaccinated chickens ("Lion Mark") and are considered safe to eat raw. Raw egg yolks taste much better than cooked egg yolks IMO. And there is an old idea of eating raw eggs as a protein supplement for athletes, eg. Sylvester Stallone does it in Rocky. This is now discredited but eggs are cheap and easily available so people probably still do it.
- phkahler 10y agoEggs contain everything you need to make a chicken with the exception of air. They can't be that bad. ;-)
- TheLarch 10y agoOh yes. After Linus Pauling advocated high vitamin C doses, lots of people started taking synthetic vitamin C, which turns out to be carcinogenic. A product called Geritol was marketed to the elderly for many years on the premise that they were iron deficient. Geritol was behind lots of cases of iron poisoning. We laugh at the quaintness of the snake oil salesman or yore -- but he never left, not really. ==== Edit ==== Not calling Pauling a snake oil salesman :-)
- SomeCallMeTim 10y agoSynthetic vitamin C is exactly the same as real vitamin C. [1] When I Googled "synthetic vitamin C carcinogenic" I found a bunch of quackery and the Scientific American article. Mostly the sites were screaming "IT'S A CHEMICAL!! CHEMICALS ARE BAD!!!!" as if water and foods aren't also made up of chemicals... :| [1] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/natural-vs-synthetic-chemicals-is-a-gray-matter/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/natural-vs-sy...
- SamBam 10y agoYes, but there has been plenty of well-researched, highly-repeatable evidence linking taking supplements of the antioxidant vitamins (A, C & E) with higher cancer risk. Not to do with synthetic vitamins, of course, but certainly to do with the selling of vitamins as something you need to supplement.
- SomeCallMeTim 10y agoSorry, but I'm going to have to say [Citation Needed]. From what I can tell, large doses of Beta Carotene (one kind of Vitamin A) and Folic Acid (a vitamin in the B family) are correlated with higher cancer risk. But if you avoid mega-doses of those, it's all good. Here's my reference: [1] Key Quote: >One of the largest, longest, and most carefully conducted human trials on multivitamins, the Physicians’ Health Study II, showed that the daily consumption of these supplements over 11 years reduced total cancer incidence by 8%, better than any pharmaceutical drug to date. This could translate into 130,000 fewer cancer cases in the U.S. every year. [1] http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/feature-story/vitamins-do-not-cause-cancer http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/feature-story/vitamins-do-not-cau...
- Practicality 10y agoSome of it is the taste. My in-laws raise chickens and the eggs taste awesome, but even the organic+free-range chicken eggs in the store have little flavor.