Re: Scrambled Eggs

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Pratick-

>While Mercola has been flip-flopping on the raw eggs issue, he has

>consistently

>maintained that scrambling eggs oxidises the cholesterol in the egg yolks.

>

>OTOH, Sally (in her review of Mercola's book) stated that scrambling eggs

>does not

>oxidise the cholesterol and Mercola is wrong on that count.

>

>What do you guys think?

I have no idea, but either way, it's beyond question that the yolks suffer

tremendous nutritional degradation from cooking, so it's probably a good

idea to keep scrambled eggs (and omelettes and so on) to a minimum even if

cholesterol oxidation isn't an issue.

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At 7:48 AM -0700 4/13/05, Pratick Mukherjee wrote:

>Greetings,

>

>While Mercola has been flip-flopping on the raw eggs issue,

I think there are still a lot of things we simply don't know. I think

there are a lot of things we may never know! But moderation is

probably key in most areas.

>he has consistently maintained that scrambling eggs oxidises the

>cholesterol in the egg yolks.

>

>OTOH, Sally (in her review of Mercola's book) stated that scrambling

>eggs does not oxidise the cholesterol and Mercola is wrong on that

>count.

>

>What do you guys think?

>

>We eat eggs in many different ways - soft boiled, scrambled,

>omelletes, raw, etc. and am wondering if scrambling is a problem,

>then omelletes are a problem as well.

>

>Opinions?

>

>-Pratick

My honest opinion is that it's possible to worry too much about some

things. ;-)

I like my scrambled eggs and omelettes too much to entirely give 'em

up, although I also eat eggs lots of other ways, too. I doubt a

scramble every week or so is going to shorten anyone's life by too

much.

Besides, if Sally and Martha () like scrambled eggs, that's

good enough for me. :-D

FWIW,

Tom

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Pratick Mukherjee <pratickmukherjee@...> wrote:

> Greetings,

> We eat eggs in many different ways - soft boiled, scrambled,

> omelletes, raw, etc. and am

> wondering if scrambling is a problem, then omelletes are a problem as

> well.

>

> Opinions?

You could always eat sloppy scrambled eggs! This was the norm in our

house - scrambled but left very soft.

Helen

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>

> I eat scrambled eggs every morning. Not only are they nutritious and easy,

but my two-year-old son gobbles them up as well. I throw in whatever veggies I

have in the crisper to get the veggie intake up, too. I usually have spinach

and onion on hand, but the rest is a variety of whatever is on hand: broccoli,

bell peppers, leeks, etc.

>

> My question is: How important is it to calculate the nutrition information

for my varied eggs on Fitday.com? I have a basic egg recipe calculated on there

that I use to come up with an idea of my protein/fat/carbohydrate intake, but I

just don't have the time to input every variation of my scrambled eggs.

Hi AnnMarie. Once you " get the feel " for how much of each food group you need

to eat daily to obtain your ratios, you don't have to calculate them exactly

every day.

You can check every month at first, and after awhile check them once every 6

months. When you get the feel for it most people find they are " right on " when

they check them. I have.

You don't need to be exact or perfect, some variations are okay.

Bee