how healthy is eating 10 eggs a day?

[Wildcard]

ten eggs contains 700% of daily recommended cholesterol.

how bad would it be to eat this much cholesterol for, say, three months.?

[dazzlin182]

definitely have no idea, the most i eat 1-3 a day sometimes not at all. this should be interesting to know....

[Redsnapper]

Ten eggs a day? For how long? Wouldn't you get sick of them before even 3 weeks goes by? Um, I wouldn't recommend it. Really, the healthiest was to eat involves changing what you digest enought to obtain all different nutrients and vitamins. Eating that many eggs would probably fill you up when you might benefit more from eating say, salmon or some other protein instead and changing it from meal to meal.

As far as wondering if it would hurt you, I'm not sure but I wouldn't be surprised if it did have some negative effect on ones body. In fact, I'd bet that it would.

[cs_carver]

really don't know about the cholesterol. DANDR could probably provide more information about that. I didn't pay attention to his theories about how the body processes cholesterol in the absence of carbs. (You are close to carb-free if you're going to try this, right? Serious ketosis? Elsewise, can you say, "Heart trouble?")

BUT: Are these free-range organic eggs, or the kind you buy at any old grocery store? If B, expect breasts before long. Most chickens are loaded up with growth hormones, and at 10/day for any length of time, you're going to be WAY overloading your liver's ability to clear them, unless you are also on an exceptional liver detox program.

[giiirrrl]

from what I read, according to recent research dietary cholesterol is not strongly linked to blood cholesterol levels. and moderate consumption of eggs should not impact cholesterol levels unless a person has a family history or a tendency of elevated blood cholesterol. still, 10 eggs a day seems like too much to me...
and I would also agree with cs_carver about the amount of growth hormones and your liver's ability to process them.
there other sources of protein like tuna, lean turkey and chicken meats, salmon and other types of fish ( ilove flouder and catfish :) ) also peanuts and almonds would be good.

[MichaelG]

My late English granny, even during the depression, ate three boiled eggs for breakfast every morning since 1904. How she got them during the rationing who knows. her dying regret was that she was only 6 months away from getting the Queen's personal telegram (still sent to people in the British Commonwealth on their 100th birthday!).

On a more historical note, as we know there are vast bird rookeries in coastal areas today with 6 billion people on the planet. Imagine, with perhaps only a couple of million paleolithics on the planet, the size of some of the rookeries then.

Surely there would have been many communities living off birds and eggs as their main diet (plus fish etc, being in a coastal region), and I would suggest that we are most likely genetically programmed to eat eggs in abundance.

As for cholesterol, pl. read "the oiling of America" available on many web sites, that exposes the fact that most studies into cholesterol have been funded by marge companies such as Proctor and Gamble.

Cheers

Michael Gardner
Australia

[Wildcard]

this is what atkins has to say about eggs. I dont know if he was thinking ten eggs/day though

http://atkins.com/helpatkins/newfaq/answers/YouEatALotOfEggsWhenYouDoAtkinsIsnTAllThat.html

If we had to name a perfect food, the egg would win, hands down. While many foods supply a mere handful of vitamins and minerals, eggs are nature's perfect food. It is one of the few foods that can provide all eight essential amino acids, the building blocks of protein (as well as choline). Since our bodies don't manufacture these eight substances, we have to get them through foods or supplements. The yolk of an egg is protein so it was a travesty when low-fat propaganda had people eating egg-white omelets, meaning they missed out on the most nutrient-dense part of the egg.

People who have steered clear of eggs for years, fearing their cholesterol count, can still have high blood cholesterol. When you are on a controlled carb lifestyle and beneath your threshold of carbohydrate tolerance, you are burning fat for energy. The fat in food poses no threat, so long as you are controlling carbohydrates. Moreover, the cholesterol found in an egg will have no impact on your total blood cholesterol on a controlled carbohydrate nutritional approach

[Wildcard]

Michael,

I read "the oiling of america" http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/oiling.html and it was indeed very interesting that there were virtually no deaths from MI heart disease in 1900 when people were consuming 18lbs of animal fats/year.

No wonder I hear all those stories of men and women who ate lots of bacon and eggs daily and lived to be 98.

I guess eggs are not so bad after all. I am about to throw away all margarine and hydrogenated oils in my place

[kingb123]

That is extremely unhealthy. Come on people! Use logic. If you're eating that many eggs, you'll lack the other nutrients you need to survive, not to mention the incredibly high levels of cholesterol you'll be consuming. Of course eggs are ok, maybe even healthy, in moderation, but this is insanse, unhealthy, and in my opinion, dangerous.

[322432]

What is unhealthy about eating 10 eggs per day? One would think that a nearly perfect food could not be in excess. I have been eating 7 to 10 eggs a day fo a year now and have never felt better. Cholestrol is probably the most important thing in our bodies after blood; all the bull about it being too high is just another scam to put us on statins so that we can fork over another $50 grand for cancer surgery and chemo later on. I'm not sure what I could eat that would be better for me or have more "good stuff" in it than eggs.
I'm tired of the so called experts telling me lies and unsupported infomation on how to eat to be healthy; I listened to these idiots for too long and felt horrible, looked horrible, and acted horrible. About a year ago, I started eating like I did when I was growing up on the small farm that we owned. It just so happens, that it was what is now called low carb. I call it normal.
Today's low carb is the normal way that healthy people ate when all the health problems of today were almost nonexistant. The all American, Ornish, Pritkin WOE is the one that is "full of prunes" as my Grandmother would say. Yes,-that is the reason we ate fruit- to keep us regular; and we ate very little of it, because we didn't have that much of it, or need much of it.
It's getting late; think I'll go make my bedtime snack-a four egg omelet. I sleep really well, and wake up hungry for bacon and eggs every morning. Yummy

[Wildcard]

hey, and we have nearly the same stats. Good post.

just dont roll over and die sometime soon so that the anti-eggers cant say I told you so. :D

[tribal]

My late English granny, even during the depression, ate three boiled eggs for breakfast every morning since 1904. How she got them during the rationing who knows. her dying regret was that she was only 6 months away from getting the Queen's personal telegram (still sent to people in the British Commonwealth on their 100th birthday!).

On a more historical note, as we know there are vast bird rookeries in coastal areas today with 6 billion people on the planet. Imagine, with perhaps only a couple of million paleolithics on the planet, the size of some of the rookeries then.

Surely there would have been many communities living off birds and eggs as their main diet (plus fish etc, being in a coastal region), and I would suggest that we are most likely genetically programmed to eat eggs in abundance.

As for cholesterol, pl. read "the oiling of America" available on many web sites, that exposes the fact that most studies into cholesterol have been funded by marge companies such as Proctor and Gamble.

Cheers

Michael Gardner
Australia

That sounds like my great grandmother, lived till she was 98, her son (my great uncle) lived till he was 87, and my great aunt lived till she was 88.

They all lived in the same house down the coast, I remember going around there when I was a kid. They had a chicken pen and ate eggs every day, and not to mention everything they ate was cooked with lard. It sure worked for them, they were all very active and healthy right into their final years.


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[Innamora]

My doctor said eating a large quantity of organic eggs was fine. Large quantity being a dozen per day. She has patients who are on fixed incomes who have been eating large amounts of eggs (while on Atkins) who's cholesterol levels are now in the healthy range.

[serrelind]

My opinion is that it is ok. Aren't studies that say eating eggs are bad due to high cholesterol are always studies that look at high carb eating? If you eat lots of eggs but carbs are low I don't think it's a problem. I think eggs are practically the perfect food around. Your body will create cholesterol, more than a healthy amount, if you don't get very much in. Dr Schwarzbein shed some insightful light on cholesterol in her book. Go read the book if you're so concerned with eating so much cholesterol.

Serre

[TheCaveman]

Six eggs, raw, every morning, for a little more than two years now.

Lipid profile? Gold standard for about a year now.

[MichaelG]

Duck eggs are the thing. Duck eggs are to hens eggs as beef is to veal, mutton is to lamb and pork is to whatever immature pork is called! Used to have a mob of muscovy ducks and was in egg heaven, butnot in a position to keep them here

Michael
Australia

[Trinsdad]

Only thing I would even remotely worry about is developing an alergy to eggs if you were consuming so amny of them.

Other than that I agree with caveman I like how perfect a raw egg is for the body. and quite frankly healthy people wont have much problem if you happen to catch salmonila from one bad egg 1 out of 30,000 eggs chance.

www.mercola.com is a good source to read aobut how to avoid bad eggs.

[jimjam]

ten eggs a day? WOW! Well, if you don't have a cholesterol problem, maybe it wouldn't hurt, but that really does seem excessive. I once scrambled myself five in scads of cheese and butter and felt really guilty, but it was awfully good, I have to say! (i'm getting hungry now..lol)

[Quinadal]

I eat 3 dozen+ eggs a week and my triglycerides are 46!

[Trinsdad]

Quin, do you cook them or have them raw?

Did you ever have a weight problem before or after or do you process fat well?

[serrelind]

Ok, I'm curious. How do you eat raw eggs? How do you prepare them? Sometimes I'm too lazy to boil/fry them. It'd be nice to simplify this process further. Maybe just crack 'em in my mouth and swallow? :D

Serre

[Trinsdad]

I like raw eggs a few ways:

I put them in my Protein shake

I put them (one at a time) in a cup with some lemon juice, salt and pepper and a dash of tabasco (Love them this way!)

Mix them with fresh spinach, celery, and tomato juice from my juicer (takes a bit of bavery to do it)

Swallow them from the shell if I only want one. Good Luck!!

By the way you are in great shape! Grats on hitting your goal!

[serrelind]

For some weird reason, thinking about popping one straight into my mouth is making my mouth water right now???!!! LOL... Thanks for the tips, Trinsdad. I will try out some of your ideas later.

Thanks for the compliment as well. You're doing good yourself!

Serre

[TheCaveman]

Just to be clear, I can't do the Philly Eggs. I briefly blend them together with cod liver oil (mint flavor), some brewer's yeast, acidophilus and then maybe some bone meal. Breakfast. Just now, in fact.

[Trinsdad]

Hey Cave, where do you get mint flavored Cod Liver Oil..I can only find lemon.

[TheCaveman]

Hey Cave, where do you get mint flavored Cod Liver Oil..I can only find lemon.

TwinLab makes it. The lemon is better tasting, but I can only find mint. I did pick up some cherry-flavored at a new store, and am going to try it when my bottle of mint runs out. I've had great luck in the past asking for products that my store doesn't stock. All the same to them, I suppose. One time I asked about a different flavor (of something, I can't remember), and the ordering manager said he would order some, because he really had no idea what customers liked and what they didn't. They like making simple changes like that, since so much of the rest of their job they don't have any control over (shelfspace, etc.).

Okay, just took a swig of the cherry. Not bad at all!

[clgrein]

I was just watching dr.90210, its a series about a plastic surgon in Bev. Hills, anyway, I missed why, but I tuned in, just in time for him to say, He works in the industry of youth, so he likes to lead by example and he has a 12 egg breakfast, I think everyday, took them outside and downed them, I believe they were soft boiled and I don't think he ate all the yolks. Did anyone else see this and did they catch the whole reasoning???

[ThisBottle]

I saw the same episode of DR. 90210 and I thought my prayers were answered. He claimed to eat a dozen hard boiled eggs every morning.
His reason was because he wants to keep his weight at 185. If he didn't eat 12 eggs every morning, he'd be 145.

I started to do that, and I was afraid that I may be damaging myself somehow, but I would be nice to pack on a nice 30 lbs, for I am too freakin skinny.

[dionysius]

I haven't heard of anyone dying from egg overdose.. the only problem might be boredom, but u can cook eggs in a variety of ways i guess.