Anyway, taking 2-3 eggs daily isn’t bad at all, in fact, I will recommend you take more if you are a body builder because it’s a good source of protein to fuel your lean muscle building. But I wouldn’t advise you to go more than 2 per day for the yolks.
Egg white consists of 10% Protein and 90% water and no carbohydrates or fat.
However yolk contains high amount of fat. 10% of an eggs weight is considered to be fat and taking more than two eggs’ yolks exceed the daily amount of cholesterol intake for an adult.
Lancet shows in his publication that “Adding one egg to diet is shown to increase serum LDL (low density lipoprotein) levels by 12%”. But Harold McGee argues that the cholesterol in the yolk is not harmful because ingested saturated fats poses the real danger; that is the margarine on the pan that you fry the egg not the egg itself.
Bottom line: I will say you can go for as many egg whites you want daily but make sure your egg yolk doesn’t exceed 2 for a day.
On the issue of eating it after dinner, I would say that doesn’t make much sense. If you will be consuming your protein, it should be done during your active hours. That will help your body make the most out of it. so no point eating your boiled egg after dinner.
Good luck
Scott Hsieh
lover of eggs
144w ago
Eggs are quite healthy (and delicious!) and you should not feel guilty about having one or two of them to start your day.
There is a SLIGHT link between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol, but reports have repeatedly established that the effect is small and perhaps outweighed by the fact that eggs are good for you otherwise. New government guidelines (in the United States, as of 2015) establish that cholesterol is not a “nutrient of concern,” which sums up the available evidence very clearly — don’t worry about it. Have a third egg in your day if you really like them.
Back to your question: how many is too many? Well, there was a report published about a guy who ate 25 eggs a day and had healthy cholesterol levels [1]. Some members of the medical community were up in arms about this [2]; one guy was like, that is like 1900 calories in eggs, how are you still alive? I don’t recommend 25 eggs per day.
Philip Ghezelbash
Writer, Health Nut, Certified Personal Trainer
10w ago
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Egg yolks are not bad for you. This is a dogmatic myth.
Let me explain…
Concerns arise about cholesterol levels and saturated fat being linked to heart disease and other ailments as it was many decades ago with rise in the popularity of the low fat diet.
Remember, just because a macronutrient is called “fat” it doesn’t mean it expresses itself physiologically in this way when consumed.
Colon cancer and coronary heart disease are only increased when protein consumption is above the recommended daily dose.
LDL stands for Low Density Lipoprotein and HDL stands for High Density Lipoprotein.
All “cholesterol” is identical. These aren’t actually cholesterol they are proteins which carry cholesterol around.
When there was a massive correlation and speculation about heart disease and cholesterol it was because total cholesterol used to be measured as LDL + HDL.
However, we know LDL is “bad” and HDL is “good” as LDL increases the risk while HDL decreases the risk.
The logic used in an argument against saturated fat is that saturated fat increases LDL.
What’s more important is also about the number of LDL particles floating in the bloodstream (called LDL-p), instead of LDL concentration or even the size of the particles.
Low-carb diets, such as the ketogenic diet tend to be high in saturated fat. These diets lower LDL-p, while low-fat diets can have an adverse effect and raise LDL-p.
So, in conclusion saturated fats raise HDL (the “good”) cholesterol and change LDL from small and dense particles to larger LDL particles which isn’t a bad thing.
Cholesterol isn’t bad though and it’s crucial for the body, especially for immunity, hormonal function.
When you eat cholesterol your liver produces less. So high cholesterol really has negligible affects.
This means egg yolks everyday are fine.
The amount of cholesterol from food has a minor effect, if any, on your risk of heart disease.
One recent analysis looked at 40 prospective studies on dietary cholesterol consumption and health risk.
It concluded that dietary cholesterol was not significantly linked to either heart disease or stroke in healthy adults.
Check out this video on meat, saturated fat and cholesterol:
Thanks for reading,
Garrick Saito
likes food
73w ago
Eating two to three eggs per day is perfectly fine.
Eggs have gotten an undeserved bad reputation because of cholesterol.
Cholesterol and the Great Egg Debate
One source of confusion has long been eggs. A typical egg contains about 200 milligrams of cholesterol, but only 1.5 grams of saturated fat. When researchers first linked high blood cholesterol levels to heart disease, eggs got a bad rap.But there’s never been good evidence that eggs are a major factor in high blood cholesterol levels or a contributing cause of heart disease.
In fact, when researchers at Harvard Medical School analyzed data from almost 120,000 men and women, they found that eating the equivalent of an egg a day did not increase the risk of heart disease or stroke. A more recent Harvard Medical School study, published in 2008, also found that otherwise healthy men could eat up to seven eggs a day with little risk. The only danger showed up in men with diabetes, which is known to increase heart disease risk.Indeed, studies suggest that only about 30% of people are particularly susceptible to the effects of dietary cholesterol on blood cholesterol levels.
And overall, the effects of dietary cholesterol are relatively small compared with saturated fat and trans fats.
Vivek Mittal
60w ago
Yes, I opine that, eating 2–3 whole eggs everyday is bad for health. Let me justify my point.
A whole egg contains:
Around 6 grams of ProteinAround 5.5 grams of fat out of which 1.6 grams is saturated fat.373 mg of cholesterol.
It is recommended to consume not more than 15 grams of saturated fat everyday.
It is also recommended that if you are perfectly healthy, not more than 300 mg of cholesterol should come from food.
Now, as far as the saturated fat is concerned, you can have 2–3 eggs everyday. But because of high cholesterol, I would not suggest you to have more than 1 whole egg each day.
Also, in our daily life we cook vegetables in oil, consume dairy products etc which are anyway high in saturated fat and cholesterol. Hence, eating 2–3 whole eggs everyday may harm you in the long run.
Egg whites on the other hand contain nothing but protein. You can have as many egg whites as you want to in a day. However, it is very difficult to eat egg whites alone because of their bland taste.
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Curtis Alexander
Pharmacist and published author. http://www.ask-curtis.com
5w ago
I’ve been eating 2–3 eggs each day for 10+ years.
Here is my experience.
Eggs Are As Close To A ‘Superfood” As We Have.They are calorically light and nutrient dense – with less than 80 calories per whole egg and plenty of protein and healthy fats. Depending on the eggs they may also contain Omega-3’s.
Doesn’t Raise Blood Cholesterol. Ironically, even though eggs contain cholesterol (primarily from the yolk) they don’t raise your blood levels of cholesterol.
My cholesterol and triglycerides dropped after I started eating eggs. How can that be? Because your body actually regulates cholesterol for you.
Think about it this way: if you don’t eat very much cholesterol your liver will make more (it needs to for your hormones).
If you eat a lot of cholesterol your liver down-regulates – or makes less cholesterol to compensate.
I do want to point out that this is true for most of the population but there are people with genetic disorders when it comes to producing cholesterol that may want to avoid them.
Allergies? A common concern is that if you eat the same food each day for long periods of time you can develop an allergy to them.
While this is a commonly passed around belief – there doesn’t appear to be much proof for it.
Plus, there is a big difference between a food intolerance (getting gas from drinking milk) vs a true food allergy (drinking milk causes your throat to swell shut and you stop breathing).
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Curtis Alexander is a pharmacist and natural health expert. He writes about how to look, feel and live better naturally at Ask Curtis.
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