EAT YOUR EGGS!

Have you ever ordered an omelet at a restaurant and wondered how many eggs were used to make it? A pancake restaurant chain on the West coast actually uses six eggs to make their omelets. How is that even possible? Most quiche recipes don’t even call for that many eggs (each quiche usually call for four eggs).

ARE EGGS PART OF HEALTHY DIET?

When you are trying to make sense of all the nutrition news you read and hear, keep this simple suggestion in mind — eat more whole foods and eat less processed foods. And guess what…eggs definitely qualify as a “WHOLE FOOD” Eggs provide key nutrients, such as a nice dose of the phytochemical, lutein (found in the yolk), thought to ward off age-related macular degeneration, and high quality protein (most of which is in the egg white). Other key nutrients include vitamin A, vitamin B-2 and B-12, and selenium.

So having an egg occasionally or even daily can be part of a healthy diet. Yes, they are loaded with cholesterol (about 210 mg cholesterol per egg), but saturated fat in food has a stronger effect on raising LDL “bad cholesterol” than the cholesterol in food, and one egg contains about 1.6 grams of saturated fat.

We never seem to eat just one.

If we sit down to an egg-based entre, they almost always feature two or three eggs per serving like omelets, quiche, frittata, eggs benedict, scrambled eggs etc…Consuming three eggs per person increases the total of fat, saturated fat and cholesterol quite a bit. Now suddenly we are talking about a serving containing:

15 grams of fat

4.8 grams of saturated fat

636 milligrams of cholesterol

And these numbers don’t even include the ingredients we tend to add to egg dishes, like cheese, bacon or sausage.

Bottom line: Eggs aren’t nutritional poison, but nobody needs to eat three to six eggs in one meal.