Is eating too many eggs bad for you?
 

Let me start off by saying that they are the Omega 3 eggs, from organic grain fed chickens. I try and work out 3 times a week, and have a pretty healthy diet. I cook 80% of my meals myself, and most of my meat is local from free range animals.

Okay, now to the gravy: I eat 2-4 eggs a day (and I just realized that I ate 6 today). I eat 2 in the mornings in a shake, and sometimes 2 later on in the evening in a shake. The shake consists of fruit, 2 eggs, soy milk, and other such goodies.

I tried searching all over the internet about this and there is so much contradicting information its ridiculous. I try to stick to medical articles and away from crap the average internet moron posts, and I still find conflicting information.

So I suppose I am wondering if there are any nutritionists out there who would know more about this than I would.

It's a bit confusing because several years back, eggs were demonized for being high in fat and cholesterol--bad for your heart/blood pressure.

But that's changed.

I've read a number of books on nutrition/sports nutrition. Generally, eggs are good for you, but only in moderation. They do have fat and cholesterol, but the also have high quality protein, vitamin A, etc.

From what I summarize of what I've read and trust, there is nothing wrong with having one or two egg yolks per day. It's best if you have no more than one, but two won't do much harm.

They're still figuring out whether the cholesterol in eggs is actually bad for you (cholesterol in itself isn't bad, as it does have a function).

Some call it the perfect food.

Up to four a day? It might be a bit much. It all depends on the rest of your diet, I suppose.

A certain general practitioner I know said, over dinner, that if you eat five in a week you are fine, but if you go over that it is not good.

Most GPs barely study nutrition in the course of their medical studies...so I'd take that with a grain of salt.

If they're your primary source of animal protein, and you're eating lots of whole grains, I wouldn't worry about it. If you are eating other forms of animal protein, especially red meat, I'd moderate my intake if I were you.

Hmmm, good question. Seeing as I also don't know, I would like to add that when I was younger (0-9) I was allergic to high amounts of protein. Just one egg would constitute that high amount of protein but funny enough I wasn't allergic to milk. But white meat and eggs on the other hand made me break out and itch all over within a couple of hours of consuming it. This case just went away with only my mom out of her 11 siblings claiming a similar case. This then happened again to my oldest sisters daughter. She's 4 now and still can't eat even one egg without breaking out.

Curious.

That is indeed strange Xerxys, I have never heard of anything like that happening to anyone else.

As far as my diet goes, I eat lots of fruits and vegetables, and not all that much red meat. I would say I eat red meat about once a week, maybe twice every three weeks. I mostly eat chicken, and just started to eat more fish. I suppose chicken is readily available for me as my roommates brother-in-law raises free range chickens so we have a whole freezer full of them. I don't ever eat white bread and try to eat only whole wheat pasta and if I eat bread its always whole wheat.

Eggs are a food of the gods as far as I'm concerned. I've been known to eat 6-12 a day and average probably like 2-3 cartons a week. Only organic grain fed chickens though. You'd be bombarding your system with antibodics and hormonal crap from the factory farm eggs.

Also, I don't smother them in butter or sausage and bacon. Just straight up scrambled with some pepper and a pinch of salt. I have used them in shakes at times too when lifting heavily along with fruit, ice, bit of oatmeal and almond milk.

From a health standpoint I think there's far great things to worry about such as trans fats, MSG, aspartame, high fuctose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, and the list goes on. Personally I'm not going to lose sleep over organic eggs when I still can't totally eliminate these much more serious poisons from my diet 100% of the time.

MSG, aspartame, and HFCS aren't really that bad for you, you don't have to worry about them as long as you're not allergic/sensitive and moderate your intake.

Well the information I've read says otherwise. Unless, you're talking about the governments opinion which I don't trust at all.

My SO and friends did that once...we bought a flat of 60 eggs and hard-boiled them all. They only managed to eat about half of the eggs. We had leftover hard-boiled eggs for a week afterward and ended up giving some of them to friends because we were sick of them.

blah, she-lish is a dietitian and nutriationst. ill ask her morrow and let you know what she says.

xeryxs - she-lish deals with people (especially kids) with allergies to eggs. kids usually outgrow their allegy though.

I ate 5 breakfast tacos this morning.
The nutritional value in them rivals that of this post.

Speaking of curious egg related issues:
I'm severely intolerant to eggs. I wouldn't say it's an allergy, given that I can eat them in baked goods, etc. But eggs by themselves? My body literally rejects them--within two hours, I'm throwing up. This just started happening a few years ago--in my early twenties, about the same time I developed a slight lactose intolerance. I really don't alter my lifestyle because of the milk thing--I assume the risk and endure the consequences (AKA, the runs). But I've learned my lesson when it comes to eggs, and avoid them. Sad, I really miss omelets....

I don't know if it's bad for you, though it seems there is an ongoing debate about it possibly causing a higher risk of type 2 diabetes...and there is a study that correlates eating more than 6 eggs per week with untimely death in men.

What I can say is that for me, I eat a little bit of everything. Moderation, I would say, is the key.

i usually take in about 10 eggs a day ,2 whole eggs and 8 whites with oats in the morning, i also add natural peanut butter and milk 2 that, it might sound disgusting, on the contrary its really good.

No, I'm talking about published, peer-reviewed research. It's all about moderation; aspartame is fine unless you're drinking hundreds of cans of diet soda per day, every day; MSG isn't a problem unless you're allergic or sensitive, and HFCS tastes like ass but is all converted to glucose anyway.

I ate breakfast with an Olympic power-lifter at the OTC in Colorado Springs. He sat down with 3 dozen hard boiled eggs, and started his breakfast off with them, eating mostly the whites. His stature actually resembled that of Humpty Dumpty. Coincidence?

I believe one egg contains about 60% of recommended maximum amount of daily cholesterol intake. I wouldn't eat more than one per day, if that.

In college my instructor (who was the diet/nutrician guy for the ASU football team) said that eggs are deathly high in cholesterol and not to eat more than 1 per day, less than that if possible. So basically I have nothing to add to this thread but more conflicting data. :(

Like everything else it's subject to interpretation, but some say eggs are the perfect food, others say they are poison. I eat them almost every day.
There is no denying they are an excellent source of protein, the question is, is the cholesterol and fat content harmful.
On that subject the opinions seem to diverge greatly. If your health markers are good, I would have no concern. If your cholesterol and triglycerides are high, restraint may be in order.