Should Eggs Be A Part Of Your Healthy Eating Plan?

Personally I love eggs. Especially for breakfast.

One of my biggest weight loss tips that I constantly give people who, like me, where brought up on a diet of cereal because it was marketed to our parents, and us, as being good for you.

If you’ve been reading my stuff for long enough now, you will know my thoughts on breakfast cereal.

It is just inviting your belly fat over for a party.

Cereal should not be part of a healthy eating plan and eggs are a much better choice, as is one of my other favourites of Greek Yoghurt, fruit and nuts.

I’m also a bit partial to a bit of rice porridge too.

But back to eggs.

What’s the deal with eggs and what about those egg yolks. They’re supposed to be bad for us right? Well ,fellow fat loss expert Mike Geary, the Truth About Abs guy, has this to say about one of my favourite breakfast options:

Most people are confused about nutrition. Somehow most people now mistakenly think that the egg yolk is the worst part of the egg, when in fact, the YOLK IS THE HEALTHIEST PART OF THE EGG!

By throwing out the yolk and only eating egg whites, you’re essentially throwing out the most nutrient dense, antioxidant-rich, vitamin and mineral loaded portion of the egg. The yolks contain so many B-vitamins, trace minerals, vitamin A, folate, choline, lutein, and other powerful nutrients… it’s not even worth trying to list them all.

In fact, the egg whites are almost devoid of nutrition compared to the yolk.

Even the protein in egg whites isn’t as powerful without the yolks to balance out the amino acid profile and make the protein more bio-available. Not to even mention that the egg yolks from free range chickens are loaded with omega-3 fatty acids.

Yolks contain more than 90% of the calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, thiamin, B6, folate, and B12, and panthothenic acid of the egg. In addition, the yolks contain all of the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K in the egg, as well as all of the essential fatty acids.

“But I heard that whole eggs will skyrocket my cholesterol through the roof”

No, this is FALSE!

When you eat a food that contains a high amount of dietary cholesterol such as eggs, your body down-regulates it’s internal production of cholesterol to balance things out.

On the other hand, if you don’t eat enough cholesterol, your body simply produces more since cholesterol has tons of important functions in the body.

And here’s where it gets even more interesting…

There are indications that eating whole eggs actually raises your good HDL cholesterol to a higher degree than LDL cholesterol, thereby improving your overall cholesterol ratio and blood chemistry.

So next time a health or fitness professional tells you that egg whites are superior, you can quietly ignore their advice knowing that you understand the REAL deal about egg yolks.

One more thing about eggs…

I read a study recently that compared groups of people that ate egg breakfasts vs groups of people that ate cereal or bagel based breakfasts. The results of the study showed that the egg eaters lost or maintained a healthier bodyweight, while the cereal/bagel eaters gained weight.

It was hypothesized that the egg eaters actually ate less calories during the remainder of the day because their appetite was more satisfied compared to the cereal/bagel eaters who would have been more prone to wild blood sugar swings and food cravings.

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Now are you convinced?

It’s not just me preaching the real truth about fat loss but gurus like Mike Geary as well, so we must be onto something!

You can now officially have another reason to laugh at the bodybuilder posers in the gym who continue to scoff down their egg white protein shakes.

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