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No yolk: eating the whole egg as dangerous as smoking?
Los Angeles Times ^ | August 14, 2012 | Melissa Healy

Posted on 08/16/2012 8:02:53 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Just as you were ready to tuck into a nice three-egg omelet again, comforted by the reassuring news that eggs are not so bad for you, here comes a study warning that for those over 40, the number of egg yolks consumed per week accelerates the thickening of arteries almost as severely as does cigarette smoking.

Server, can you make that an egg-white omelet instead, please?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: antitobaccoscam; eggs; food; health; scam
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To: ConservativeStatement
My chickens smoke cigarettes. I'm a walking dead man.

/johnny

61 posted on 08/16/2012 9:22:16 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: dfwgator
Dihydrogen Monoxide

Well, see that's how they hide it. They give it an innocuous sounding name like Dihydrogen Monoxide instead of calling it what it really is - Hydric Acid.

62 posted on 08/16/2012 9:22:45 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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To: Albion Wilde

Thanks for mentioning the fruit acids following eating meat. I’ve always liked combinations of meat and fruit, like ham and pineapple on pizza or in stir-fry, or chicken with mango salsa. Amazing how many things I naturally am drawn to turn out to be healthy. Maybe people need to follow their instincts more on this.


63 posted on 08/16/2012 9:26:38 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
The Incredible Ever-Changing Egg Warning

Odd Years - Eggs Good For You - Okay To Eat

Even Years - Eggs Are Deathly Cholesterol Bombs


64 posted on 08/16/2012 9:28:48 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: albie
Complete bullsh*^. Low carb diets have proven over and over that eggs, meat, poultry etc are good for cholesterol, triglyceride levels and blood pressure. Read Dr. Atkins for gosh sakes.

Yup. I have been on Atkins since the day after Thanksgiving of 1999. My numbers look pretty darn good for someone who lives on meat, cheese, eggs, sour cream and cream cheese. In fact, I was getting my blood tested every month for 6 months a couple of years ago, and one weekend, I decided to go off the diet for 2 days (which I do every few months) and my triglycerides shot up. The doctor was worried about it at first, then I explained what happened. He couldn't believe I was on Atkins for so long and had numbers like I did.

We can probably blame the sugar and high fructose corn syrup lobby for all this BS about eggs and meat being bad for you.

65 posted on 08/16/2012 9:30:05 AM PDT by America_Right (Remember, Republicans have a lot more in common with Democrats than they do with Tea Partiers.)
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To: dfwgator

As per Jack La Lanne and his brother, I wonder which was happier? Jack always just looked so happy. I’m wondering if all that exercise had his endorphins going all the time. If it put him in a happy mood all the time, I’m thinking that’s a pretty good benefit.


66 posted on 08/16/2012 9:31:10 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: CSM
Many a FReeper celebrated their efforts and will now have to live with the results...

I actually had a FReeper tell me the other night they didn't believe there were nanny state loving Freepers. An on another thread was called an Obama loving lurking liberal troll. (paraphrasing)

67 posted on 08/16/2012 9:50:02 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: married21
like ham and pineapple on pizza
Clicked on your HP and just knew I'd see a CA flag. Argghhh.....
68 posted on 08/16/2012 9:55:15 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven; married21

I just thought I would second oh8eleven’s remarks about Californians and what they regard as a proper pizza.

Sigh.

Sally’s Apizza in New Haven.
Piece Pizza in Chicago on North Avenue.
Costello’s in Meriden, CT
Modern Apizza in New Haven

Pizza!


69 posted on 08/16/2012 10:09:48 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I love to hear you talk talk talk, but I hate what I hear you say."-Del Shannon)
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To: rarestia
It's all a matter of how healthy your liver is and in how your liver can get rid of toxins in your body and at the same time get rid of the bad cholesterol and produce the good cholesterol.
Stress is another factor in how your liver can function.
If your liver is over stressed and busy trying to get rid of the toxins in your body, it can't properly function and regulate your good and bad cholesterol in your body.
Yes, stress is a real factor in how our bodies function and regulate certain functions in our bodies.
Getting enough sleep can be a factor.

70 posted on 08/16/2012 10:13:09 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: married21
I’m wondering if all that exercise had his endorphins going all the time. If it put him in a happy mood all the time, I’m thinking that’s a pretty good benefit.

That's funny. A friend of mine who is a running advocate was telling me how much I would add to my life by running so many miles per day. My calculations (based on the life span of my unhealthy living forebears) told me that all of my "extra" time would have been spent running, which sounded miserable.

You don't have to look far to find cranky fitness buffs, either.
71 posted on 08/16/2012 10:13:09 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I love to hear you talk talk talk, but I hate what I hear you say."-Del Shannon)
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To: Albion Wilde

From what I have read over the years and also surmised, it is not cholesterol what causes the problem and along with it heart attacks. What causes the actual problem is what makes cholesterol stick to the inside of artery wall and then keeps on piling up until it completely chokes off such an artery and in turn may cause a blockage resulting in a heart attack.

From what I have read is that there are many things which may cause an inflammation on the inside of an artery wall and then the human body tries to repair the damage by means of patching up such damage with cholesterol and as it keeps piling on cholesterol the artery keeps getting smaller and smaller and most of us have either heard or know what the results are.

The cause of such inflammation may come from a variety of foods and certain type of fats, all of these can be easily found on the internet. Another philosophy of mine has been that a lot of ailments start with an innocent small inflammation here or there which progressively becomes worse and eventually becomes chronic. In other words an inflammation is the humans body reaction to something it does not like, rather similar to an allergic reaction and eventually this may lead to some serious ailment.

When it comes to being a guinea pig for Aspirin I am probably about as good as they come as I started to take Aspirin at the young age of about sixteen because of problems related to my spinal column which is more or less a mechanical and inherited problem and now, as I write this I never see seventy years again and are headed for eighty.

At times I would eat Aspirin like candy and at the time coated Aspirin was not known in Europe were I grew up, neither was a chiropractor who could help putting some vertebras back in place. I am careful of what I eat and have been exercising pretty much most of my life, but I contribute my overall health to the constant intake of Aspirin as an anti-inflammatory agent, but right now I am down to about three to four a day.

More recently I have run across an article titled a heart surgeon speaks out, and his article seems to be pretty much in agreement what I just stated. I am quite certain that there has to be a doctor amongst the many members of FR and if what I wrote is not up to snuff or considered to be wrong, by all means correct me as this is the only way we learn.


72 posted on 08/16/2012 10:23:24 AM PDT by saintgermaine
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Actually ? it is, whether you eat the good food or bad food, sometimes there is not enough time to get to where you need to go when nature calls.


73 posted on 08/16/2012 10:23:34 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Pizza!
I was born and raised in NYC ... yummmm, pizza!
Moved to Rochester (the boondocks!) many moons ago and even THEY didn't use ham and pineapple.
74 posted on 08/16/2012 10:29:29 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Dr. Sivana
" told me that all of my "extra" time would have been spent running, which sounded miserable. "

You need to also calculate how much time and money you would have spend to go see the knee doctor from all the stress, wear and tear on your knees, all the medical procedures done on your knees, and time spent in the hospital recuperating from knee replacement surgery.
75 posted on 08/16/2012 10:30:15 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: saintgermaine

Got to be very careful of how much aspirin intake you take every day, to much and it can damage the liver.


76 posted on 08/16/2012 10:33:30 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: LauraJean

“Or else I cook it on a mess of hash browns. I add the eggs just after I turn the hash brown over.”

Dang, that sounds good! I never thought about that and am going to give it a whirl this weekend. Plus, the bonus is that it would save me cleaning one pan!


77 posted on 08/16/2012 10:34:55 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: oh8eleven
Yup, plain cheese pizza for me that the dough was freshly made that day or left over night in the refrigerator, not this factory made days old dough that some pizza shops get.
Also ? the pizza was made by hand and not rolled by a machine.
Hope they still use ( POLLY'O ) mozzarella cheese.
Want to take the bite ( acid taste ) out of pizza or tomato sauce ? put a little bit of sugar in the tomato sauce.
78 posted on 08/16/2012 10:43:19 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: saintgermaine

I totally agree about inflammation. It is very important to keep it under control, especially as we get older. Which you seem to be doing very well!


79 posted on 08/16/2012 10:53:21 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw)
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To: ConservativeStatement

One would think with the upcoming impementation of 0bamacare/Romneycare they would be hiding the “factual” results and tell people to eat a dozen eggs a day, if this were true.


80 posted on 08/16/2012 10:54:44 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political party's in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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