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The issue with eggs as an everyday breakfast is cholesterol, not everything in your diet is about measuring calories. A single egg provides 60% of the recommend

by NzNz 10y ago

The issue with eggs as an everyday breakfast is cholesterol, not everything in your diet is about measuring calories. A single egg provides 60% of the recommended daily intake which means you have to be extra careful with the rest of your diet if you don't want to increase your risks of heart disease. Sausage can also have a decent amount of cholesterol, although not as high as eggs. By introducing both of these as your daily breakfast, you also limit the choices of food you can have for lunch and dinner. Sauces like mayonnaise have eggs, you probably shouldn't eat the occasional omelette, which is a tasty, occasional way of enjoying eggs (I particularly love them with ceps or asparagus), chinese fried rice, baked goods, tortilla, desserts like crepes, the list goes on. None of these are foods that should be eaten on a daily basis, but even less so if you introduced foods high in cholesterol right into your breakfast.

douche 10y ago
Assuming that eggs are actually bad for you and do contribute to heart disease (they seem to go back and forth on this every second Tuesday...), I'd still take the heart disease over the diabetes from the sugar-blasted breakfast foods.
- AstralStorm 10y ago
  As if anyone has ever shown diabetes is caused solely by sugary foods. You might be getting a package deal there.
- NzNz 10y ago
  It doesn't have to be either. Common breakfasts in france include eating 1 yogurt, or 1 croissant, or 1 toast with butter. Some people do eat 1 toast with jam, which might fit into your "sugar blasted" category. In general, we're pretty light on breakfast and we don't have high diabete prevalence compared to countries like the US or even Germany.
  - tluyben2 10y ago
    I don't think 1 toast with jam comes anywhere near sugar blasted. Comparing to the (plastic) stuff I see people (not exclusively in the US either as children in Spain and the UK seem to do it as well) eat.
tallanvor 10y ago
All the latest studies seem to show that dietary cholesterol actually has little to no effect on the cholesterol in your blood.
- NzNz 10y ago
  All those studies are as shady as the studies that used to promote cigarettes as healthy. There is enough evidence out there to the contrary, including recent studies : http://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(12)00504-7/abstract http://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(12... http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(84)92168-8/abstract http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67... http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/25/6/589.abstract http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/25/6/589.abstract http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199112123252405#t=articleTop http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199112123252405#t=a... The current rehabilitation of cholesterol is about politics : http://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015-08-24-How-the-Egg-Industry-Fooled-America_AutumnGM.docx http://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015-08-24-Ho... http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/102/2/235.extract http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/102/2/235.extract http://time.com/4225819/eggs-nutrition-egg-yolk/ http://time.com/4225819/eggs-nutrition-egg-yolk/ ( 2016 )
  - thrkw123456789 10y ago
    The studies saying eggs were bad for were funded by the cereal industry...
    - Thriptic 10y ago
      Even if this is true, that doesn't mean they should be blindly disregarded.
      - thrkw123456789 10y ago
        No but they should be taken with a pinch of salt.
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HeyLaughingBoy 10y ago
If I had to restrict my diet that much, I'd rather die early.
Jedd 10y ago
As tallanvor notes, cholesterol-egg connection is pretty weak. Upwards of 80% of your cholesterol is manufactured by your body. Since Timothy Ferris boosted the slow-carb diet, there's been a huge increase in the sample set for 'regularly eating eggs for breakfast' - with no negatives (that I've seen reported, at least). Plus there's the question of whether cholesterol is really a good indicator for heart disease - last I read on this stuff (Ben Goldacre's work) I got the impression there's some correlation, but no causation. And not in a weaselly kind of way, but in a we shouldn't be so focussed on cholesterol figures way. Personal data point - 3 eggs almost every breakfast, with some sliced meat or avocado - for about 6 years, with no adverse affects. And with no concern about 'extra' eggs in lunches and dinners (fritata, chachouka, tortilla, quiche, etc).
sevensor 10y ago
Anecdotally, I eat two eggs with hot sauce and toast for breakfast every morning. Lipid panel just came back fine. When I switched from cereal I stopped feeling like crap all morning. (And I wasn't eating sugary cereal to start with -- mostly plain yogurt, oatmeal, and a few raisins. Dessert cereals like granola are a whole other level of misery afterwards.)

by NzNz 10y ago

douche 10y ago

Assuming that eggs are actually bad for you and do contribute to heart disease (they seem to go back and forth on this every second Tuesday...), I'd still take the heart disease over the diabetes from the sugar-blasted breakfast foods.

AstralStorm 10y ago
As if anyone has ever shown diabetes is caused solely by sugary foods. You might be getting a package deal there.
NzNz 10y ago
It doesn't have to be either. Common breakfasts in france include eating 1 yogurt, or 1 croissant, or 1 toast with butter. Some people do eat 1 toast with jam, which might fit into your "sugar blasted" category. In general, we're pretty light on breakfast and we don't have high diabete prevalence compared to countries like the US or even Germany.
- tluyben2 10y ago
  I don't think 1 toast with jam comes anywhere near sugar blasted. Comparing to the (plastic) stuff I see people (not exclusively in the US either as children in Spain and the UK seem to do it as well) eat.

tallanvor 10y ago

All the latest studies seem to show that dietary cholesterol actually has little to no effect on the cholesterol in your blood.

NzNz 10y ago
All those studies are as shady as the studies that used to promote cigarettes as healthy. There is enough evidence out there to the contrary, including recent studies : http://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(12)00504-7/abstract http://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(12... http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(84)92168-8/abstract http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67... http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/25/6/589.abstract http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/25/6/589.abstract http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199112123252405#t=articleTop http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199112123252405#t=a... The current rehabilitation of cholesterol is about politics : http://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015-08-24-How-the-Egg-Industry-Fooled-America_AutumnGM.docx http://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015-08-24-Ho... http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/102/2/235.extract http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/102/2/235.extract http://time.com/4225819/eggs-nutrition-egg-yolk/ http://time.com/4225819/eggs-nutrition-egg-yolk/ ( 2016 )
- thrkw123456789 10y ago
  The studies saying eggs were bad for were funded by the cereal industry...
  - Thriptic 10y ago
    Even if this is true, that doesn't mean they should be blindly disregarded.
    - thrkw123456789 10y ago
      No but they should be taken with a pinch of salt.
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HeyLaughingBoy 10y ago

If I had to restrict my diet that much, I'd rather die early.

Jedd 10y ago

As tallanvor notes, cholesterol-egg connection is pretty weak. Upwards of 80% of your cholesterol is manufactured by your body. Since Timothy Ferris boosted the slow-carb diet, there's been a huge increase in the sample set for 'regularly eating eggs for breakfast' - with no negatives (that I've seen reported, at least). Plus there's the question of whether cholesterol is really a good indicator for heart disease - last I read on this stuff (Ben Goldacre's work) I got the impression there's some correlation, but no causation. And not in a weaselly kind of way, but in a we shouldn't be so focussed on cholesterol figures way. Personal data point - 3 eggs almost every breakfast, with some sliced meat or avocado - for about 6 years, with no adverse affects. And with no concern about 'extra' eggs in lunches and dinners (fritata, chachouka, tortilla, quiche, etc).

sevensor 10y ago

Anecdotally, I eat two eggs with hot sauce and toast for breakfast every morning. Lipid panel just came back fine. When I switched from cereal I stopped feeling like crap all morning. (And I wasn't eating sugary cereal to start with -- mostly plain yogurt, oatmeal, and a few raisins. Dessert cereals like granola are a whole other level of misery afterwards.)