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Step away from the omelette: Eating just half an egg a day increases your risk of DEATH by 7% - unless you ditch the yolks, researchers claim
daily mail ^ | 2/9/2021

Posted on 02/10/2021 7:57:05 AM PST by mylife

Boiled, fried, scrambled or in an omelette, whole eggs pose a threat to health and eating more of them increases your risk of death, a study claims.

Researchers found eating just half a whole egg — which includes the yolk and the white — increases the likelihood of dying by seven per cent.

Risk of death increases by a further seven per cent for every half an egg on top of this, so a person eating one egg a day has at 14 per cent greater chance of death than someone who avoids the food.

Chinese researchers who led the study believe high fat and cholesterol levels in eggs are to blame.

They warned that people should use only the whites or switch to healthier egg substitutes, which lower the risk of dying.

Substituting an equivalent amount of nuts or legumes for half a whole egg reduced death rates by up to a third. Poultry, dish or dairy products had a similar effect.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cholesterol; death; eggs; eggwhites; eggyolks
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To: mylife

I learned to make the perfect Omelet from the gals at ‘America’s Test Kitchen/Cook’s Country.’ Pro Tip: It’s all in the length of time you beat the eggs.

Whenever I make something that Beau really likes, he always asks, ‘Who taught you this? Bridget or Julia?’ ;)


61 posted on 02/10/2021 8:23:12 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: mylife

We are ALL dead men walking.

Shhhhh... don’t tell anybody but the dirty little secret is:

- We are ALL going to die of something someday.

Every. Last. One of us.

This type of malarkey about what we should and shouldn’t eat changes direction so much that I have neck trouble after watching the “tennis match” for so many years.

Use your brain as far as nutrition. Simple as that.

A Twinkie isn’t going to kill you. A diet of nothing BUT Twinkies probably will cut your days short.

But it’s YOUR life. YOU get to make those choices, not the government and not the so-called “experts” who change their minds every couple of years..


62 posted on 02/10/2021 8:23:15 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: mylife

George Carlin found that swallowing one’s saliva causes cancer.

Need a crack Wuhan research team to get right on that one.


63 posted on 02/10/2021 8:23:23 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: mylife

In the 70’s and 80’s whole gigs were bad for you. In the 2000’s they changed that and said whole eggs were good for you. Now we’re going back?


64 posted on 02/10/2021 8:24:31 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Are you saying Lan Lam can’t whisk an egg? ;)


65 posted on 02/10/2021 8:26:01 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Is this BS back? And from the Chinese yet? And just what does a 7% chance of death mean anyway? The terms are so vague they can be interpreted a dozen ways and I suspect that’s the idea.
All of the nutrients are in the yolk.
I’m 75 years old, and I’m going to spend the rest of my years eating what I damn well please.


66 posted on 02/10/2021 8:26:54 AM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: mylife

Swallowing small bits of saliva for years will eventually kill you!>...............


67 posted on 02/10/2021 8:27:19 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: mylife

Yep, I am a dead man walking.


68 posted on 02/10/2021 8:27:34 AM PST by D Rider ( )
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To: mylife
It is well known from numerous studies that the benefits from egg yolks outweigh the risks posed by the cholesterol content. However in China as in other places many people prefer to eat the yokes from unpasteurized raw or under-cooked (runny) eggs. This greatly increases the risk of becoming infected by harmful bacteria such as Salmonella especially in places like China. In the USA dairy products are well if not over-regulated and much safer. Does anyone remember all the farmers who have been taken down by swat teams for selling unpasteurized milk?

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/communication/salmonella-and-eggs.html

https://economics21.org/html/what%E2%80%99s-behind-government%E2%80%99s-hatred-raw-milk-1254.html

69 posted on 02/10/2021 8:28:35 AM PST by fireman15
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70 posted on 02/10/2021 8:28:52 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: mylife

Eggs are multivitamins. I eat at least two a day.

A large egg contains the following, according to the USDA:

72 calories
0g carbohydrates
6g protein
5g total fat
1.5g saturated fat (8% DV)
0g fiber
0g sugar
69mg potassium (1% DV)
6mg magnesium (1% DV)
28mg calcium
0.8mg iron (3% DV)
99mg phosphorus
0.08mg vitamin B6 (5% DV)
0.45 mcg vitamin B12 (10% DV)
270 IU vitamin A
41 IU vitamin D (11% DV)


71 posted on 02/10/2021 8:29:27 AM PST by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: mylife

Oh, so they’re bad again? Wake me for breakfast when another study says they’re good for you.

CC


72 posted on 02/10/2021 8:30:00 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: mylife

Correlation is not causation.


73 posted on 02/10/2021 8:30:12 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far greater danger from authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: mylife

Research forgot to mention previous research found the white of the egg countered the effects of the yolk. I will continue to eat quiche, omelettes, whatever I want with eggs!


74 posted on 02/10/2021 8:30:30 AM PST by sevinufnine
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To: mylife

“Chinese researchers who led the study believe high fat and cholesterol levels in eggs are to blame.”

Gee, I wonder if American tax payer$ funded thi$ “$tudy”?


75 posted on 02/10/2021 8:30:34 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: mylife

Both of my grandmothers started every day with two eggs, buttered toast, bacon or sausage, orange juice. It’s always what they served me whenever I visited. They lived to 95 and 96.


76 posted on 02/10/2021 8:30:47 AM PST by Restless
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To: joethedrummer
Archie had a Twinkie everyday, Edith Killed him...


77 posted on 02/10/2021 8:31:08 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: oldbill

“I guess we’ll have to go back to eating 40 bran muffins a day.”

Be sure to have a lot of toilet paper handy. LOL.


78 posted on 02/10/2021 8:31:55 AM PST by sevinufnine
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To: oldbill

“I guess we’ll have to go back to eating 40 bran muffins a day.”

And that howling mournful sound throughout the land will be the cries of millions of straining rectums.


79 posted on 02/10/2021 8:32:29 AM PST by Rebelbase (COVID misanthrope)
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To: mylife

If I was King I would mandate that no scientific study be published without a full (and honest)list of who paid for the research.


80 posted on 02/10/2021 8:33:28 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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