| 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. |
