| Eliminating
eggs from one’s diet can cause a person to miss out on its many
healthy benefits. Cellular and biochemical doctors around the
world say it’s time we see the egg in a different light.
Here are some of the interesting and healthy facts about one
of nature’s most complete foods:
Eggs and Diabetes
The incidence of diabetes at the turn of the century was quite
low. With the boom in the infant formula industry after 1960,
and the decline in the consumption of eggs, diabetes and leukemia
were observed to have risen among children.
Eggs and Weight Loss
Eggs produce lecithin, which aids the body in burning fat more
efficiently and converting excess cholesterol into beneficial
cholesterol for good skin and weight loss.
Eggs and Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s is brought about by deficiency in a hormone that
help intellectual stimulation. The choline in eggs prevents
Alzheimer’s disease, which statistics show is highest in the
US where consumption of eggs is low. Eggs contain substances
in the conduction of nerve signals to the brain.
Egg dealers vs Breakfast cereal dealers
The reputation of eggs started to wane about 20 years ago, when
certain groups in the United States began heavily promoting
cereals for breakfast. Because the sponsors of the promotion
were cereal companies, there was no mention about the goodness
of eggs.
Eggs and Rabbit studies
Bad publicity came when a study conducted on the effect of eggs
on rabbits. The rabbit were given crystalline cholesterol equivalent
to six eggs a day. Because rabbit were by nature vegetarians,
such a diet effectively disrupted the animal’s nutritional balance.
From this study, they concluded that cholesterol from eggs was
bad for humans.
Eggs and Lifestyle
When eggs were taken out of people’s diets, heart attacks became
the number one killer in the US and high incidence of stroke
and cancers were reported. At the start of the century, there
was very low incidence of stroke and heart attack when people
consumed a lot of eggs, ate unpolished rice and drank whole
cream milk. Of course, the lifestyles then were also less stressful.
Eggs are the Cheapest Source of Protein
In spite of this, the world’s poor remain unhealthy because
they are not eating eggs. Egg producers associations around
the globe report that in Asia, egg consumption is fast decreasing.
Philippines has the lowest rate of egg consumption in Asia,
only 42 eggs per annum for every person compared to the average
of 300 in other countries.
Their pitch: eat more eggs and help the economy
and at the same time improve the health of the poor.
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