| 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. |
