How many egg yolks a week?

Doolee

Hi all,

Im in the middle of a debate about eggs so want opinions educated or otherwise about how many egg YOLKS as apposed to the usual protein stuffed white you lot would eat a week.
I hate chucking the yolks away but usually eat one whole egg and 2 whites with a little smoked salmon to make up my protein limit for a meal.

I cant find any link that says you can eat no more that X a week but they all seem to say 6/7 is fine. But if so, why are some people restricted (I know diabetics are and people with high cholesteral) or if its all ok to eat as many as you like then why restrict yourself at all. Why not just eat the whole egg all the time seeing as its all good cholesteral LDL/HDL thing.

Gonna put this up in Medical forum and Diet/Nutrition just to compare.
Thanks for the opinions.

Gaz

Well I average 6 a day :eek:

podge57

I dont think cholesterol in food has any correlation to your cholesterol levels.

I wouldn't worry about how many yolks you eat, as long as your diet is pretty good overall. I have 25-30 yolks per week and my cholesterol level is 4.5.

Parsley

Well i've had 6 full eggs today (so far)...

afaik there's just as much protein in the yolk as the white, as well as loads and loads of minerals and other healthy things that aren't in the white at all. someone posted up a good link to an article in favour of eating the whole of the egg a while back but i can't remember where. anyway, my opinion is to horse the eggs into ya, yolk and all.

Fink Goddie

corkcomp

eggs are fine for most people but not everyone. some people have cholesterol problems that are made worse by egg yolks, and no this is not a myth before anyone starts going off on one ...

not meaning to sound like a broken record but 30g tin of tuna has as much protein as approx 5 eggs so vary you diet and dont be relying on eggs too much for protein, cos you will have to eat a LOT to get any decent ammounts of protein

Doolee

Thanks everyone,

Its just interesting to know that despite all the drumming into you the health industry did in the past about too many being risky, how its taken a complete turn. Which is good of course!
Corkcomp I know its all about the varying diet but I dont eat meat so for me, fish, eggs and whey are pretty vital.

Omlette for din dins i think!

InKonspikuou2

I have ate a minimum of 6 eggs a day for the past year or so. I only got my cholesterol results back today and i am 3.9. With a healthy diet whole eggs are no problem. They only increase the lower LDL levels and don't do anything to the higher more dangerous levels. The ones that do respond to cholesterol levels increase both LDL and HDL equally so the ration stays the same and doesn't increase the risk. A lot of the warnings when it comes to excess of certain foods are old wives tales. Always worth researching first.

taz70

It's not really only a matter of cholesterol, but saturated fat. Each egg yolk has around 4-5g of saturated fat, so eating 6 a day means an additional 30g of saturated fat in your diet, which will have a cumulative effect - jeez, and at the very least, it's 30 extra grams of fat that have to be burned off per day. Bear in mind that saturated fat can lead to cardio-vascular problems quite independent of cholesterol.

So podge57 (and others) with 25-30 yolks per week is looking at ingesting an additional 100-150g of saturated fat that could easily be avoided. Now if we want to put that into calories, that's about 900-1350 calories per week of fat calories (which are actually easier for the body to convert straight into fat on the body).

Much easier to ditch the egg yolks (or restrict to two yolks per six whites) and/or vary the protein source (as corkcomp suggested). Don't think of it as a waste - you cut the chunky fat off meat without guilt - it's really just the same thing.

Magic Eight Ball

I eat between 4 - 6 eggs a day, and anywhere between 15 -20 when I'm hungover! (mega omelette FTW) :pac:

token

I had 6 scrambled eggs this morning cooked with plenty of butter along with raspberries and blueberries. Apart from some occasional Salmon that's pretty much my breakfest every day. Pretty damn good I say.

J-Fit

taz70 wrote: »

It's not really only a matter of cholesterol, but saturated fat. Each egg yolk has around 4-5g of saturated fat, so eating 6 a day means an additional 30g of saturated fat in your diet, which will have a cumulative effect - jeez, and at the very least, it's 30 extra grams of fat that have to be burned off per day. Bear in mind that saturated fat can lead to cardio-vascular problems quite independent of cholesterol.

So podge57 (and others) with 25-30 yolks per week is looking at ingesting an additional 100-150g of saturated fat that could easily be avoided. Now if we want to put that into calories, that's about 900-1350 calories per week of fat calories (which are actually easier for the body to convert straight into fat on the body).

Much easier to ditch the egg yolks (or restrict to two yolks per six whites) and/or vary the protein source (as corkcomp suggested). Don't think of it as a waste - you cut the chunky fat off meat without guilt - it's really just the same thing.

I'm not going to get drawn into this debate but I think there will be a few people that will disagree with you in relation to:

(a) Saturated fat being dangerous (I know I'm paraphrasing)
(b) A high fat diet is to be avoided

InKonspikuou2

taz70 wrote: »

It's not really only a matter of cholesterol, but saturated fat. Each egg yolk has around 4-5g of saturated fat.

Saturated fat in eggs is around 1.2-1.5g depending on size. Total fat is around 4-5g.

I should have put in my post that i only use them when bulking. So the whole eggs would have been 3-4 months on and then 2-3 months with 1 yolk per 2-3 eggs. But even regards the fat if the rest of your diet is okay i can't see the problem. Eggs are just one source of my protein and only feature on one meal. Eggs and fish oils etc are my only source of fat so i don't see it as extra fat i need to burn off. It's part of the complete fat that i want to burn off based on my plan. I'm sure that's the same for most people.

Colm_OReilly

Trevor Coulahan wrote: »

I eat between 4 - 6 eggs a day, and anywhere between 15 -20 when I'm hungover! (mega omelette FTW) :pac:

Holy Hell that's a lot of eggs! Is that to balance out all the carbs in the beer?

BossArky

Check this thread out: Regular eggs 'no harm to health'

injured365

Such a pity that so many people will recommend that people have the likes of corn flakes as a breakfast over a nice scambled eggs all down to this old wives tale!!

Honestly the fact that there are GPs, doctors, nurses and PTs still sticking to the whole dietary cholesterol and sat. fats are bad myth is either a monumental failing of the educational system or else a serious lack of interest in the part of the practitioner!!!!

Surely its about time that a respected international body made a big deal about the food pyramid and its blatent failings! So many of todays health issues are down to a complete lack of knowledge because of the fact that the food pyramid is still considered the be all and end all by so many people.

It was only the other day i was ignored because i tried to point out the one of the failings of the food pyramid when it comes to someone trying to lose weight and this was in a 3rd level course!! All i stated was the food pyramid recommends a high carb diet which isnt the best for many to lose weight with yet there was no disagreeing with me just a plain and simple disregard of my comment as wrong!!

corkcomp

the egg debate always draws some good debate! we all know an egg a day is ok (for most people) that doesnt mean you should have 10 every day .. the same way you wouldnt have 10 bowls of porridge a day .. moderation people!

Doolee

injured365 wrote: »

Such a pity that so many people will recommend that people have the likes of corn flakes as a breakfast over a nice scambled eggs all down to this old wives tale!!

Honestly the fact that there are GPs, doctors, nurses and PTs still sticking to the whole dietary cholesterol and sat. fats are bad myth is either a monumental failing of the educational system or else a serious lack of interest in the part of the practitioner!!!!

Surely its about time that a respected international body made a big deal about the food pyramid and its blatent failings! So many of todays health issues are down to a complete lack of knowledge because of the fact that the food pyramid is still considered the be all and end all by so many people.

It was only the other day i was ignored because i tried to point out the one of the failings of the food pyramid when it comes to someone trying to lose weight and this was in a 3rd level course!! All i stated was the food pyramid recommends a high carb diet which isnt the best for many to lose weight with yet there was no disagreeing with me just a plain and simple disregard of my comment as wrong!!

Exactly! And this is what I'm just trying to see around the medical forum and nutrition forum...just to see is there a difference of opinion. There isnt, as it stands, except for the medical forum when I said through my research that diabetics seem to be advised to have less than the average person as week.

I guess as someone who has been bitten by the fitness/weights/low carb-high protein/muscle gain diet bug of late, I'm looking on it from that point of view.

As for the food pyramid...where to begin! Compare the one from any irish health foundation to say the Udos Oil one (I think Transform or someone had a link up a while ago) they are totally different, and IMO - amateur or uneducated in this type of thing as it may be,for weight loss its got to be the Udos Oil one...Im living proof of that one! Good fats, greens greens and more greens, fish seeds nuts, leans meats if you eat it (i dont!) and strength training...

I'd love to ditch my own career and study sports nutrition or some sort of thing like that further but I know it will be all about the irish food pyramid and I'll probably just disagree with everything they say!!!

Its an endless debate...but a good one, and...look at it this way, at least us lot can spread the word!

beegirl

My doctor (and the 'Happy Heart' leaflet she keeps giving me :rolleyes: ) said not to eat more than 3 eggs a week, because I have high cholesterol. But I don't fully agree with her because I have read elsewhere that cholesterol in food doesn't turn into cholesterol in the body - and that saturated fat is the main cause of high LDL (bad) cholesterol levels. A friend of mine was told by her doctor to avoid prawns, because they contain cholesterol - more BS! Prawns are very low in sat fat so they would be a good food for someone with high cholesterol. Anyway, in relation to eggs, the yolk contains less saturated fat than your average biscuit. So if you were inclined to think it's ok to eat a couple of biscuits a day, you should also be able to eat a couple of eggs a day - at least they have good stuff in them too i.e protein.

All that said I never wake up early enough to cook eggs, so I only have them on weekends!!!

Edit: by the way, I was also told that in 'familial hypercholesterolaemia' (not sure how to spell! anyway it's the inherited type!!!) that your liver produces too much cholesterol... so even if you don't consume ANY fat/cholesterol, it will still be high!

MissMotivated

I can eat anything up to 4 eggs a day, I love them!! If I get high cholesterol as a result I'll worry about that then

d'Oracle

I don't believe there is a co-relation between Dietary and serum cholesterol.
I don't believe that Serum cholesterol is a condition in itself.
I do believe its a symptom, but not of diet.

I also don't believe in starting my day with less than 4 eggs.

Khannie

1-2 dozen eggs per week here. I get them from a local farmer. They're savage.

davmol

After reading an article from this forum last year i switched from cutting out eggs comlpetley to eating at least a dozen a week.Since then my cholesterol has dropped rom 5.6 to 4.9,ive lost 4% body fat and am training better than ever(obviously not all attributable to eggs).Thing is i followed the old food pyramid and listening to posters here i changed and followed the UDos one and things improved dramatically for me