Organic Eggs - Natures Perfect Food

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Craig Uxo Rifkin

> A week ago I submitted a post about Organic Eggs and Cholesterol/Heart

> Disease. But nobody responded. This is very important to me as I have a

> history of heart disease in my family and have to be careful. if somebody

> wih any knowdlege can respond, would be greatly appreciated. Read the egg post

here:

I have no qualifications in this area, other than reading articles and forming

my own

opinions. What I see is conventional wisdom changes over time on whats best

for you

(i.e. : eat margrine instead of butter, now they say eat butter instead of

margarine).

So, I would be frightened to just take medications to try and control the

indicators

(cholestrol, etc), of heart disease risk, because these things might change

tomorrow.

I see heart health as related to overall health... and overall health is

determined

by several factors (genetics, diet/environment and mental/mood). Picture these

things

that affect your health as overlaping circles, where they all play a role, and

consider

that we can control to a large degree, all but genetics. Now consider that we

can many

times make up for poor genetics, by compensating with the other two. For

example: everyone

in my dad's side of the family lost their teeth before 30, yet I have mine at

42.

For mental health, one should be happy and have a fulfilling life. Being

depressed

can really affect your health.

As for environment; Previously I was on the Atkins diet, whether the diet is

good or

bad I don't know, but I think I learned something from it: Overconsumption is

what kills

us, and possibly the mixing a high carb diet, with a high protein/fat diet. I

try to

keep my sugar/flour (empty carb) consumption very low, and try to have carb

meals separately

from meat and vegetable meals.

My logic here is from pondering human evolution; how we probably ate meat in the

winter, and seasonal

vegetables and fruit (for millions of years that affects evolution... not just a

few thousand years that doesn't). Of course, leaving

offspring may or may not depend on longevity, but it follows that a natural diet

might

just be the ticket to a longer life as well.

So, what to do; I try to eat my fruitsand vegetables, and try not to eat too

much (esp meat and hi-carb foods). Instead of

vitamin pills (I used to take), today I try to get my nutrients form actual food

(because

there are so many nutritional factors in food, that you just cannot get in a

pill).

I've been drinking green and oolong tea instead of coffee (for the most part),

because

tea is loaded with antioxidants and other nutrients. I drink Yerba mate, and

have been

experimenting with occasional red wine for the same reasons.

BTW, If anyone is interested in great tea, email me privately (I use the gungfu

brew method

that the Chinese developed over thousands of years... not the teabag for

5-minutes junk,

YUCK). I've learned a great deal about it in the last year. Also, Guaiaki

yerbe mate.

Bob Mckee

Atlanta GA USA

Bobbler@...

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