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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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