The Danger of Egg Yolks?
Filed under: General Health, Nutrition, Training
A reader sent me a hilarious video that I think you will all enjoy. It is information like this that simply confuses people and has them question good dietary practices.
Seriously awful. All those terrible monounsaturated fats in eggs, and those terrible omega-3′s. Yes there is some saturated fat too, but that’s not a problem either.
We also don’t want to take into account all of the other nutrients in the egg yolk do we:
- choline
- vitamin A
- vitamin D
- B vitamins
- lutein
- zeaxanthin
- biotin
- protein
- and more!
That is a perfect example of throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Due to the small amount of saturated fat in an egg he is recommending to toss it out, regardless of all of the other incredible nutrients you are tossing out with it. Simply foolish.
Stuff like this happens all of the time in the nutrition field unfortunately. People go to these weird extremes or cling to fad diets looking for the “magic” answer. It’s not there, and it certainly is not about throwing away glorious egg yolks.
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Posted on October 26th, 2011 by Brian St. Pierre
4 Comments
October 26th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
This guy’s hat was enough for me to take nothing he said seriously. I’m glad he took the time to not only tell me his eggs were going down the garbage disposal, but gave a demonstration to boot!
Awesome.
October 27th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Maybe if he stopped throwing out all those nutrient rich egg yolks he could afford a shirt too!
October 27th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
…I cook my eggs shirtless too.
October 28th, 2011 at 1:05 am
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