http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Valuable nutritional information is beginning to leak into our society. Beginning with the infamous egg. Remember, eggs are not the enemy. They are not "high" in cholesterol and essentially have nothing to do with such nonsense. It is actually the diet filled with unprocessed and nutrient-less foods we put into our bodies.
Naturally occurring cholesterol in our body can be our friend if we take the right steps to monitor it. Cholesterol is nothing but protein lipids that transfer fat to and from the liver in order to maintain a healthy system. We really F this up by consuming crappy foods that promote inflammation and that is where the cholesterol builds up within our body.
Eggs are good. Eat them. Eat them as a WHOLE. The yolk "contains more of the nutrients and 50% of the protein". This aint no lie so don't be scurred no mo folks.
We should be more cautious in where we get our eggs as it states in the article and is quite evident in our nation today that most livestock and chickens are fed a grain/corn/crap based diet. If the animal is coming from a big factory farm, it is almost inevitable. This transfers into their eggs and thus upon ingestion, infects our body with inflammatory byproducts. This is no bueno. Buttttttt, like I preach day in and day out, fish oil (Omega-3) can help our systemic inflammation problems. It is not the answer, but can certainly aid in the inflammatory build up within our bodies. We should all be consuming at least 4 - 5 grams a day or .25g/10lbs of bodyweight (dependent on athletic level/goals/health issues/non-issues) to be more specific. Yes, depending on the potency of your fish oil this may be a shit-ton of pills. So what. Break up your dosages if needed, but get them down the hatch! No excuses!
In conclusion, read the article. I just wanted to hit on some main points and make sure you guys are taking your fish oil and eating your eggs. If you can get better quality eggs, do so. Be cautious of your labels though because some are misleading and downright LIESSSS. (See http://whole9life.com/2010/11/
Train hard, live smart and EAT EGGS.
-Aja
AB great article. And the whole 9 article is awesome too. The cool thing is we actually have a great source of getting top quality eggs....Yonderway Farm. We have a delivery every month which is usually the 3rd thursday of the month. That will be December 16th this month.
ReplyDeleteHere is an interesting article they put out about Eggs.
http://yonderwayfarm.com/farm-blog/2010/10/23/so-how-can-we-work-together.html
The cool thing about Yonderway is you can actually go to their farm and see how they do things. It is in Brenhem, they have nothing to hide...Do you think you could go to Industrial Farms and see actually how they do things? Would you want to?