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"Eggs are bad for you" and other possible food myths. The AH Guide To Healthy Eating

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  • 09-10-2014 10:36pm
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    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    Depending on the source you read, eggs are really bad for you. Or they're not. So which is it?

    There's also brown bread. Apparently its just as unhealthy for you as white?

    What are some food myths you'd like to put to rest in The AH Guide To Healthy Eating?


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    #2
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Compulsory Thank Whoring Second Post:

    "Well yore Ma made me some lovely eggs the other morning if that counts?"


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    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    So, one of those egg council creeps got to you too, huh?


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    #4
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    A little bit of gluten doesn't make your dick fall off and fly around the room.


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    The One Doctor
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    Margarine is good for you.

    No, it's full of chemicals and shite. Butter is healthier in the same quantities. Besides, it tastes much better.


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    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    Margarine is good for you.

    No, it's full of chemicals and shite. Butter is healthier in the same quantities. Besides, it tastes much better.

    More of this kind of thing. That was news to me.


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    anncoates
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    Special K: riddled with sugar


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    [Deleted User]
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    anncoates wrote: »
    Special K: riddled with sugar

    I heard there's more sugar in special k than there is in actual sugar


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    Sunnyisland
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    Eating cabbage makes yer hair go curly.


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    #10
    Oryx
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    Low fat doesnt mean healthier.


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    seamus
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    There's nothing wrong with eggs. They're a good source of everything.

    Nothing wrong with bread either, white or brown. Just don't eat too much of it.


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    dxhound2005
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    The only forum which is weirder than AH is Nutrition and Diet. Over there bread is poison.


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    BabysCoffee
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    Look up LCHF Diet

    Throws the whole fat is bad for you myth on its head


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    fleet_admiral
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I heard there's more sugar in special k than there is in actual sugar
    Sugarception


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    Filmer Paradise
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    No food is bad for you as long as you remember one simple rule.

    The hole in the front is a lot bigger than the hole in the back.


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    Cookie_Monster
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    The food pyramid


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    Gongoozler
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    Sugar isn't the devil. Just because something has sugar in it doesn't mean you have to avoid it. It's added sugar you need to watch out for. Refined versus natural.


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    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    The only forum which is weirder than AH is Nutrition and Diet. Over there bread is poison.
    I've been thinking of leaping onto the bandwagon and giving gluten the heave-ho recently. I eat bread and drink beer and for the last good while, I just can't stop farting. They smell bad too.

    From tomorrow, no more gluten and farewell flatulence!


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    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    The food pyramid
    It's grand.

    It's just the wrong way round!


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    fullstop
    Registered Users Posts: 11,338 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    seamus wrote: »
    There's nothing wrong with eggs. They're a good source of everything.
    Correct, it's what's added to them that can make them unhealthy...butter, cheese, salt etc.


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    For Forks Sake
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    KungPao wrote: »
    I've been thinking of leaping onto the bandwagon and giving gluten the heave-ho recently. I eat bread and drink beer and for the last good while, I just can't stop farting. They smell bad too.

    From tomorrow, no more gluten and farewell flatulence!

    Stay on the gluten and stick a cork up yer hole. Problem solved*.





    *at least until the pent-up gasses cause you to die. But I'm not a doctor.


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    For Forks Sake
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    fullstop wrote: »
    Correct, it's what's added to them that can make them unhealthy...butter, cheese, salt etc.

    ....half a pigs worth of delicious, delicious bacon......


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    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    seamus wrote: »
    There's nothing wrong with eggs. They're a good source of everything.

    So, say if I want to have two eggs a day for breakfast, 7 days a week. Thats healthy?


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    coffee_cake
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    I have eggs for breakfast all the time


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    fullstop
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    So, say if I want to have two eggs a day for breakfast, 7 days a week. Thats healthy?

    Why not? Good source of protein and good fats.


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    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    fullstop wrote: »
    Why not? Good source of protein and good fats.

    And, if you believe some sources, they are full of bad cholesterol thats very bad for your heart.


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    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Stay on the gluten and stick a cork up yer hole. Problem solved*.





    *at least until the pent-up gasses cause you to die. But I'm not a doctor.
    I didn't have time to read your whole post but thanks for the advice, buddy!


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    cloud493
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    That chocolate and what not is only ever bad for you, according to some 'health nuts' I know.


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    Shanotheslayer
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    And, if you believe some sources, they are full of bad cholesterol thats very bad for your heart.

    Well look at aesthetics a lot would eat eggs for breakfast...


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    #30
    Absoluvely
    Registered Users Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Absoluvely


    IvaBigWun can spend up to 3 minutes without oxygen, 3 days without water, or 3 weeks without creating a new thread.


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    fullstop
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    And, if you believe some sources, they are full of bad cholesterol thats very bad for your heart.

    It's becoming more widely accepted that dietary cholesterol isn't as bad as was previously thought, and there is also HDL cholesterol in eggs so to say they are full of bad cholesterol is certainly false.


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