Eggs - Whats the Big Health Risk? (organic, diet, healthy)

I was reading up on the nutrition that a 50g egg contains and I am not sure what the point of controvery seems to be. It seems to me it is nutrient rich. Out of the 5g of fat 1/4 of that is Saturated or 1.25g - whats the big deal. Is it the amount per serving or per week the issue or the way you cook it - whats up?

[elnina]

Eggs are very healthy if eaten in moderation.
Pros:
hight in proteins
low calories
lots of vitamins & minerals
Omega-3 fats , added
Cons:
cholesterol ( but this is now debated)
salmonella if eaten raw
antibiotics, toxins, persistent pesticides – which are stored in fats ( get CERTIFIED organic )

Yeah, I eat 1 hardboiled egg (w/ tabasco sauce of course -Yum!) every morning about 5xs a week. I try to get the 'free range' suspossedly better for you and the Chickedees

I just did not see any risk whatsoever - Oh well maybe I will go for two. Of course when I was young (about 10 yrs old) I would go eat certains foods every day for weeks - like spagetti or scrambled eggs with bacon - and that was like three or four eggs at a time - yet I am still here and healthy.

[mgt04]

Yeah I've heard one a day is good (so average 7 a week). When you start eating like 4-5 everyday for a month then yes you'll have issues.

Elnina described the pro's and con's well.

[Wilson513]

Some people have a genetic propensity for high cholesterol. Some people don't.

[AnonChick]

The cholesterol thing has gone back and forth and the current popular opinion is that eggs only have the "good" stuff. So you don't have to worry about that aspect of eggs at all. At least, not until they flipflop back again and tell you they found the motherlode of the "bad" stuff tucked away in a random molecule.

I have discovered on my own, however, that the brown local-grown farm eggs leave a nasty nasty smell behind in the bowl when I whisk them, and I have to wash the bowl several times and add a splash of lemon juice to get rid of the stench. The white "Eggland's Best" farms don't leave that smell, and currently, I'm discovering that the other white eggs aren't leaving that smell.

Maybe brown eggs just have something different under the shell that white eggs don't have? I preferred brown eggs for years, but never liked that smell. I only recently switched to white.

[Ohiogirl81]

Tell that chicken that waffles have eggs in them ... LOL ...

I eat eggs almost every day. Love the protein in them.

[SATX56]

Just saw these recalls this morning! Thanks for the great info Elnina!

New Egg Recall Due to Salmonella

[foxywench]

anon, eggs of any kind shoudlnt leave an odor, id be a little worried about what the "grower" was feeding.

personally i love eggs, they are a great, easy, protein packed snack and i only have to walk about 50 ft from my front door to collect about 10 a day
brown, white, pink and green from organic, free ranging, antibiotic and hormone free HAPPY healthy hens!

the risks of salmonealla are much higher in battery and "farmed" eggs (from chickens raised in very close quarters)
and remember, buzz words like organic and freerange sound great but dont mean that much when it comes down to it.
'free range' simply means they have acess to an outdoor space (and not nessicarily a large one) the hens are still typically pretty densly packed into the space.
organic is simply based on what the chicken was fed in its life...

the best eggs come straight from the farm where there kept in smaller numbers in larger spaces and fed a more natural diet of insects, greens, grain and scraps. (they taste better too)
if your prone to high colesterol limit your egg intake to no more than 2 a day.

[Sillypups]

All in moderation, I say.