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Re:  One hard boiled egg per day?

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Jimmy - 28 Mar 2006 18:08 GMT
I have one hard boiled egg every day.  My breakfast consists of a large
bowl of plain yogurt topped with wheat germ and flax seeds.  Next I eat
my hard boiled egg.  It really puts a damper on hunger and I enjoy it.
Is this harmful or only slightly so?
Uncle Enrico - 28 Mar 2006 18:39 GMT
Seems to me I remember hearing 6 eggs a week was OK.

My mother ate 2 eggs every day for decades and had terrific cardio.  She
also kept her weight in check and was an avid ballroom dancer. She also ate
a lot of fatty meats. Go figure. She was a low carb dieter before Atkins
came along. She and  many of her contemporaries knew that carbs put on the
pounds.

You'll hear differing opinions on this.

>I have one hard boiled egg every day.  My breakfast consists of a large
> bowl of plain yogurt topped with wheat germ and flax seeds.  Next I eat
> my hard boiled egg.  It really puts a damper on hunger and I enjoy it.
> Is this harmful or only slightly so?
Jeanie - 28 Mar 2006 18:42 GMT
> I have one hard boiled egg every day.  My breakfast consists of a large
> bowl of plain yogurt topped with wheat germ and flax seeds.  Next I eat
> my hard boiled egg.  It really puts a damper on hunger and I enjoy it.
> Is this harmful or only slightly so?

Both my doctor and the nutritionist have told me that eggs are really a
good food for most people to eat, as long as you don't overdo it.  I
don't think one egg a day is overdoing it.  I probably eat close to a
dozen every week, just not all at once.

Jeanie
Loretta Eisenberg - 28 Mar 2006 19:25 GMT
Jimmy, it all depends on your cholesterol level.  I woudlnt eat it
because I want my levels low, but if you arent on any meds and your
cholesterol is in control, I dont see a problem with it.

Loretta

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Roger Zoul - 28 Mar 2006 19:35 GMT
:: I have one hard boiled egg every day.  My breakfast consists of a
:: large bowl of plain yogurt topped with wheat germ and flax seeds.
:: Next I eat my hard boiled egg.  It really puts a damper on hunger
:: and I enjoy it. Is this harmful or only slightly so?

Unless you're one of those unfortunate people for whom dietary cholesterol
strongly impacts blood cholesterol, it's not a problem.  Eggs are a good
food.  I do hope you grind your flax seeds, however.  Eating them whole is
unlikely to enable you to derive useful benefit from them.  Yogurt is good
as long as it's not that sugar-loaded stuff (you did say plain - is that
full fat or low fat?).
Jimmy - 29 Mar 2006 17:34 GMT
|Yogurt is good
|as long as it's not that sugar-loaded stuff (you did say plain - is that
|full fat or low fat?).
No.  I buy no or low fat plain.  Stuff like Danone fruit yogurt tastes
really good but it's loaded with a bunch of other stuff and starches.
John101 - 28 Mar 2006 20:53 GMT
> Is this harmful

No.

I was just googling for the same info, here are some results...

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/eggs/res06-cholesterol.html

http://www.enc-online.org/dietc.htm
hot.kimchee@gmail.com - 29 Mar 2006 00:31 GMT
i eat 4 eggs every morning - last blood results were pretty good; total
cholesterol was around 110, LDL was around 70 and HDL was around 45 or
so.

but i also excersize a lot ..

poorboy
morris - 29 Mar 2006 03:28 GMT
Poorboy,

Your cholesterol number of 110 sounds good, because under 170 is
considered good these days for diabetics, but you may be closer to 170
than you think.  The formula is

total cholesterol = LDL + HDL +(Triglycerides/5)

If your LDL is 70 and your HDL is 45, then you are already at 115,
without counting triglycerides.

Either that or your typing is about as good at times as mine.

Morris

> i eat 4 eggs every morning - last blood results were pretty good; total
> cholesterol was around 110, LDL was around 70 and HDL was around 45 or
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> poorboy
Julie Bove - 29 Mar 2006 00:37 GMT
> I have one hard boiled egg every day.  My breakfast consists of a large
> bowl of plain yogurt topped with wheat germ and flax seeds.  Next I eat
> my hard boiled egg.  It really puts a damper on hunger and I enjoy it.
> Is this harmful or only slightly so?

Why would it be harmful?  Nothing wrong with eating an egg every day.

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Alan S - 29 Mar 2006 00:45 GMT
>I have one hard boiled egg every day.  My breakfast consists of a large
>bowl of plain yogurt topped with wheat germ and flax seeds.  Next I eat
>my hard boiled egg.  It really puts a damper on hunger and I enjoy it.
>Is this harmful or only slightly so?

Not at all in my opinion. I eat an average of 7-8 eggs per
week, mostly at breakfast. I've experimented with quarterly
checks of my lipids with and without eggs in the interin -
with zero effect. YMMV.

However, without knowing your one-hour post-breakfast BGs, I
can't say the same about the rest of that breakfast. The
ingredients may be OK - but you did say a large bowl and
that could add up to a lot of carbs. Are you testing
post-prandially?

Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
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