10 Reasons You Should “Avoid” Eating Eggs (FOREVER!)

Did you know that over the last few decades, there have been 10 reasons you should avoid eating eggs forever? In this video, I am going to do a deep dive into the common claims people make about eggs and why they should be avoided in your diet. We’ll take a look at each claim and whether the latest

welcome back to good day Orlando time now is 8:24 on your health watch this morning people who eat three or four eggs a day have a higher risk of both heart disease and early death that’s according to a new study out of Northwestern Medicine it says 300 milligram of cholesterol per day have been linked to a 177% spike in cardiovascular disease along with an 18% higher risk of death what’s up guys Jeff Cavalier ath . c so I have a confession to make I’m an egg eater a daily egg eater as a matter of fact four to five of them every day but in the process of actually trying to do something healthy am I actually doing more harm than good well if you’re an egg eater like me then I’m sure Clips just like that have probably caused you some concern about whether you’re doing the right thing by continuing to eat them but today we’re going to separate the fact from the fiction to determine whether or not we should be heating that advice or maybe on the other hand just throwing it in the trash along with the eggshells of the eggs that we continue to eat this just th turns out that eating eggs raises your blood cholesterol level are you in danger and so this one might be one of the most recognizable claims of them all because for years people thought that eating dietary cholesterol led to increases in your blood cholesterol levels the good news is things have changed quite a bit it was once thought that you could only eat 300 Mig of dietary cholesterol in a single day the problem for egg eaters one large egg had 200 Mig of cholesterol in it in 2015 har the dietary guidelines advisory committee recommended that we don’t even track dietary cholesterol anymore allowing us to eat as much as we want as long as we’re being mindful of the amount of trans fats and saturated fats in the foods that we were selecting the bottom line is there is no direct link between dietary cholesterol in your cholesterol levels and so if this is one reason why you’ve been avoiding eggs we can file this one under exaggerated and just throw it away some not so excellent news for those of you that eat eggs turns out that eating eggs raises your risk of heart disease and so this one sort of piggybacks on that last recommendation advancing that link just one step further realizing again that if dietary cholesterol increases blood cholesterol levels well that can lead to an increased accumulation of plaque and ultimately coronary artery disease or heart disease well all I have to do is look at my own grandfather for this recommendation gone wrong didn’t really have the cleanest diet but did enjoy his daily eggs in the morning that wasn’t until he was diagnosed with coronary artery disease and needed a stamp put in his heart at that point however he was told you can’t have eggs ever again not unless you were ready to put yourself at immediate risk the next time you cracked one open so he did what most people did back then and they stopped beating him the poor guy however wound up passing away at just 73 years old from multiple Myoma had nothing to do with his love of eggs as a matter of fact I wish the poor guy could have indulged in his favorite breakfast more often rather than having to avoid it because as we know now in a Harvard th chance School of Public Health study that analyzed three decades of data from 215,000 participants they found no con connection between egg consumption and heart disease so while my grandfather had to avoid his favorite breakfast hopefully now on the basis of that recommendation you won’t have to you’re not going to believe this one Jessica but it turns out that you should be avoiding eating the egg yolk as they are more dangerous than terrorism now I have to admit this is one that I fell for hul Line and Sinker and as I may have related in the past it kind of sacrificed my health in the process because I was looking for the no fat food I was a product of the era of seeking out no fat when it came to your diet and it did get me lean but at the same time I think it probably cost me in my overall health you need fats in your diet especially you need healthy fats in your diet and that is exactly what an egg provides you as a matter of fact all the fat in the egg is in the Yol and by throwing away the yolk you’re throwing away a lot of the nutritional value and purpose for eating the egg in the first place now again if you’re on a very low calorie diet you’re getting rid of 55 calories by tossing the yolk in the garbage but at the same time token I ask you how significant is the 55 calories even if you just mix in one full egg with the egg whites that you prefer you’re still at least allowing yourself to capitalize on the vitamin B12 d a k e choline and all the other vitamins and minerals we talked about that will benefit you long term try not to be as fearful as you once were of the egg yolk in particular and have the whole egg and be comfortable in the choice that you’ve made looking to lose weight well then fatty you should should be avoiding eggs in your weight loss diet because they’re making you fat so this is one that I never really fully understood because when you look at breakfast food options they are typically very calorie dense for instance if you took even four eggs that’d be 290 calories total but if you compare them to something like a short stack of pancakes from IHOP you’re at 420 calories or even a simple plain bagel at 300 calories mind you before you added cream cheese and other things to it for even if you had a custard filed doughnut from Crispy Cream now you’re at around 400 or 500 calories so the idea being that these are calorie dense just doesn’t really hold up and beyond that look at the protein content of those different foods there’s only one of them that’s worth the damn when it comes to getting meaningful protein in your diet and that of course is the egg and in those four eggs you’re talking around 30 gram of protein the act of eating protein itself adds to satiation and allows you to not be as hungry later in the morning what happens when people eat a calorie equal diet of bagels versus eggs in the morning they gain more weight when you equalize everything else and just have the difference be between the source of the calories even though the calories are the same those that ate those carbohydrate rich foods in the morning like Bagels wound up leading to more weight gain in the long run there’s nothing wrong with eating eggs even if weight loss is your goal sometimes you just have to stop listening to some of the recommendations that have caused you to think [Music] otherwise Frank we’re live Frank we’re live a new report from the South Harmon Institute of Technology has reported that brown eggs are healthier than white eggs who would have guessed now the origin of this recommendation might actually date back to a little jingle we used to hear back in the day it goes a little bit like [Music] this catchy but still you see while the color of the egg may be an indicator of where the egg was laid and maybe therefore if it’s close enough to you maybe it is a little bit more fresh it has no bearing on the nutritional content of that egg whether it’s brown or white it’s still going to have the same nutritional value regarding its fats proteins vitamins and minerals so bottom line is don’t be sued on where the egg was laid instead pick whatever color you want and you’re still going to get the value that you think you’re getting from the egg in the first place this just in turns out the alcohol you’re drinking is not bad for your liver it turns out your morning egg is even worse back to you