There was a study which showed that someone who eats eggs every morning for breakfast all their life will end up with arteries even worse than a chain-smoker.
How about cholesterol-free eggs? Eggs are yummy and tasty, and can be cooked in all sorts of ways, and added to so many dishes. But we shouldn't have to be worried about overdosing on cholesterol just to enjoy this otherwise healthy protein-rich food.
Cholesterol-free eggs could be produced either through genetic engineering, or else perhaps some treatment of regular eggs after they've been laid.-- sanman, Dec 30 2013 Cholesterol-Free Egg Beaters http://www.eggbeate...e-products/originalUmmm, Cholesterol-free eggs have already been engineered and are readily available in your supermarket dairy case. [jurist, Dec 30 2013] Brushing aside the possible argument of "GM Magic", it's worth pointing out that the cholesterol in eggs is only harmful for part of the time. Every few years, it's found to be a major cause of cardiovascular disease then, a few years later, it's found not to be.
These periods are not synchronised around the world - for example, eggs are often fine in the USA even when they're major killers in Europe.
Thus, one simply needs to be prepared to travel a little if one wants to eat eggs continuously.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 30 2013 // the cholesterol in eggs is only harmful for part of the time. //
For centuries, eggs weren't harmful at all; no-one knew that there even was such a thing as cholesterol.
Conclusion: "Doctors make you ill"-- 8th of 7, Dec 30 2013 I'd say longevity maximization through health science has impinged the quality of life in terms of using fear of impending death as a way of enforcing new health regimes. If every new health discovery corresponds to some decision to be made that directly affects the longevity of your own life, participation in new health regimes are literally imposed on the masses by threath of death by shadowy labcoat wearing professionals.-- rcarty, Dec 30 2013 // threath of death by shadowy labcoat wearing professionals. //
"threath" ?
Presumably preferable to shadowy labcoat wearing amateurs; bad enough being threatened, worse when it isn't done very well ...-- 8th of 7, Dec 30 2013 Not doing things very well is my profession as an amateur.-- rcarty, Dec 30 2013 Egg Beaters (TM) are eggs which have been engineered to be cholesterol free. [see link] And there are several other brands which are commercially well-known and widely distributed which make the same claim. Just sayin'. (And, for the record, I'm a fan of the products and use them regularly at home for omelets, fritattas, scrambled egg dishes and baking recipes. They're good!)-- jurist, Dec 30 2013 //Egg Beaters (TM) are eggs which have been engineered to be cholesterol free// "Engineered" is a slightly misleading term. They have been "processed", and are no doubt disgusting.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 30 2013 Have that discussion with your cardiologist after you have sampled the product, MB. I am quite certain that your personal chef can find ways to incorporate them into your menu in ways that you will find are both healthy and delicious.
And just to dispel any whiff of product endorsement, I wasn't offering a stock tip, merely identifying a product which I enjoy that I thought fulfilled [sanman]'s design specifications and was already widely known to exist. I have no intimate connection to or stock ownership in the product or company, its purveyors or investors.-- jurist, Dec 31 2013 I use egg beaters, or their knock-off equivalent frequently. I also have no fear at all of regular eggs, actually they're cheaper. I'd argue, given that fats are necessary or life, and protein is necessary for life, that, if you're going to cut calories, do it in the carbs. They are not necessary for life. By by trimming the others, you may be doing more harm than good.-- bs0u0155, Dec 31 2013 //I wasn't offering a stock tip//
Well I am: Use chicken. Much better than eggs.-- AusCan531, Dec 31 2013 I don't eat eggs any more, but when I did it was partly to take advanntage of the cholesterol as a raw material for adrenal hormones. If there were no cholesterol in them, there would be less reason to eat them.-- nineteenthly, Dec 31 2013 //Presumably preferable to shadowy labcoat wearing amateurs; bad enough being threatened, worse when it isn't done very well ...//
Amateurs, who do something for the love of it, have sometimes been held in higher regard than professionals, whose main motive is assumed to be money. I personally try to resist the modern stereotype that the work of professionals is necessarily of higher quality than the work of amateurs.-- spidermother, Dec 31 2013 That's an interesting and valid point of view, well worthy of further discussion and investigation.-- 8th of 7, Dec 31 2013 //resist the modern stereotype that the work of professionals is necessarily of higher quality than the work of amateurs// On the other hand, when choosing a dentist...-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 31 2013 ... the choice of an amateur who is heavy-handed with the injectable anaesthetics is not necessarily a bad thing.-- 8th of 7, Dec 31 2013 As it happens, I had some dental work done by a dental student, who was strictly acting in an amateur capacity, in that she was not being paid. I understand her motives to have been a desire to learn, and to do the best job she could. (She's one of those rare people who genuinely enjoy helping others for its own sake). I was very pleased with the result.
At the other end of the scale, some private practice dentist seem to operate on a drill, fill, and bill production line, and don't place such a high priority on the wellbeing of the patient.
And in the middle, the level of care by the more amateurish professionals in community dental hospitals seems to be very high. If they were in it solely for the money, they'd be in private practice.-- spidermother, Dec 31 2013 Tell me one good reason why I should synthesize my own cholesterol when a chicken can do it for me.-- Cuit_au_Four, Jan 01 2014 Salmonella Enterica.-- 8th of 7, Jan 01 2014 I've seen another study that indicates dietary cholesterol intake is preferable to metabolic synthesis as it appears to result in lower LDL scores.-- UnaBubba, Jan 01 2014 I prefer the study which shows that alcoholics have some of the cleanest arteries in town.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 01 2014 Moderate drinking is the healthy choice but drinking tends to slur the distinction between "I'm moderate" and immoderate.-- rcarty, Jan 01 2014 Tell the truth, [Max]... Flenting Wax is just arterial plaque, isn't it?-- UnaBubba, Jan 01 2014 Only if you insist on eating it, [Ubie].-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 01 2014 Not to ovo simplify things, but...the cholesterol, proteins, etc., contained in an egg are there because they have worked for a very long time. If a study finds that a heterogenous group of individuals react, in the statistically significant range, to the egg's composition (positively or negatively, doesn't matter) then we can say something of the group, not the egg.
Unfortunately it is very hard to distinguish good dietary science from bad. This has nothing to do with food, rather with the fact that we are unwilling to view all humanity as containing subtle differences. An Inuit diet will kill most 'normal' humans, for egg sample.-- 4whom, Jan 02 2014 // An Inuit diet will kill most 'normal' humans //
So will a Glaswegian diet ... humans don't last long when fed on deep-fried Mars bars, Buckie, pies, Diamond White cider, chips, and knuckle butties ...-- 8th of 7, Jan 02 2014 //An Inuit diet will kill most 'normal' humans, for egg sample.//
The trick is to eat the whole Inuit, and not just the muscle.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 02 2014 //not just the muscle// that joke had to happen, I knew it.-- 4whom, Jan 02 2014 Sp. "That joke had to happen, Inuit"-- 8th of 7, Jan 02 2014 random, halfbakery