[Closed] how many eggs is it safe to eat each day?

Yes you're going to die.

They're high in cholesterol I believe and that's the only thing that's likely to kill you if you are living a sedentary lifestyle.

[i]will i die?[/i] yes, not egg related though
[i]am i significantly reducing the population of horrible chickens?[/i] no
[i]will iDave love me?[/i] like a proud dad

I am a Clinical Dietary Supervisor currently researching a project for the CDC relating to egg consumption. My team is in the finalizing our findings in our journal, so I cannot go into many detail until its release, but what I can say is that 13.67% of eggs contain elements which could prove detrimental to your cardiovascular system, but your immune system has around a 95.31% chance to neutralize the "negative" elements.

So, for your example, if you were to eat 20, the odds you would eat one "negative" particle would be 0.045%. So based on my research, it is clearly not a severe risk to your cardiovascular health.

No you won't die, but you will become a chicken.

I read recently that the cholesterol thing is b0ll0x, I'd be more worried about getting bunged up

1) Yes, at some point.
2) More information is required. What sort of eggs are you eating? Eating Dinosaur eggs will have no impact on the chicken population in the immediate term.
3) Will you stop posting pictures of bloody catz?

They're high in cholesterol I believe and that's the only thing that's likely to kill you if you are living a sedentary lifestyle.

I seem to recall they also contain "emulsifiers" which negate the effect of the cholesterol.

I'd be more worried about getting bunged up

that would lead nicely to my next thread 'how many eccles cakes is it safe to eat each day 😛

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are we talking cadbury creme eggs? 🙂

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My parents average over 2 dozen a week between them and they are in their mid 70's. Apart from my Dad spitting feathers when I tell him what I've been up to I can't detect any problems. I average maybe one a week so nothing hereditary.

I make my own eggs and usually have too many so eat them; sometimes have 6 in a meal or 20 over a week. I read somewhere that it doesn't matter how many you eat so I'm happy with that....

LAWL ^^^

I make my own eggs

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Wow. Seriously impressed, dude.

They're high in cholesterol I believe and that's the only thing that's likely to kill you

Yes they are high in cholesterol, but hardly any saturated fat, which is the real culprit that sends cholesterol levels soaring.

As long as you eat eggs as part of a healthy, well-balanced diet and lifestyle, there is no limit to the number of eggs you can eat in a week.

They're not dog eggs are they? Can't see that doing you much good

I make my own eggs

Well OK, I have a chicken concentration camp at the bottom of my garden.

Geoff Capes used to eat 20 for breakfast. He was the man.

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Look at the copycat below 🙄

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I make my own eggs and usually eat them

Well OK, I have a chicken concentration camp at the bottom of my garden.

That's good, nothing worse than distracted chickens.

Geoff Capes used to eat 20 for breakfast. He was the man.

Yeah, but they were just little budgerigar eggs

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Just eat the egg white then as all the 'C' is in the yolk.... *yawns* god how boring would that be all the taste and runny stuff missing ewwwwwwwww

Happily eat a 5-egg ommlette on a Sunday morning. No butter, no bacon, maybe a little chorizo and some onion in there. And all from my 6 hens.

Marvellous.

mmmm i make scrambled eggs in the morning and mix in some reggae reggae sauce for ULTIMATE FLAVOUR.

How many pickled eggs can you eat ?

I eat two hard boiled eggs for breakfast I take to work with me and I get made to eat them in the kitchen due to the smell BUT they keep me feeling full till much later and have helped with the diet

Happily eat a 5-egg ommlette on a Sunday morning. No butter, no bacon, maybe a little chorizo and some onion in there. And all from my 6 hens

Your hens lay Chorizo?

OK as long as you don't fry them, surely ?

I am not convinced about the theory they bung you up. A friend of mine is allergic and anything with even a tiny bit of eggs rips straight through her.

5-egg ommlette on a Sunday morning. ... And all from my 6 hens.

And the one that's not pulling it's weight becomes the sunday roast next week. Good efficiency.

OK as long as you don't fry them, surely ?

Yebbut virtually none of the oil stays on the egg.

I keep hens. I eat a lot of eggs. I'm still here.

I've wondered this as I'm eating around 25 eggs a week!

well Mr Disco (mind if i call you Tricky?) i'm averaging around 21ish a week, mrsconsequence is worried about my diet... so i put on my thinking cap and thunked as hard as possible about who best to ask for sensible advice, STW as always 😀

tricky or Mr disco is fine 😀

I had my mother on the phone the other week asking me to get a cholesterol test as she was worried about all the eggs i was eating and lack of dairy.

Where's our glorious leader idave with his thoughts?

i hope mrsconsequence doesnt turn out to be your mother! although i must admit i'd be quite pleased with having a step-son called either tricky or disco.

http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/conditions/high-cholesterol.aspx

I've heard that eating too many eggs can raise your cholesterol - how many can I eat?

For most people there is currently no limit on the number of eggs that you can eat in a week. However, because the recommendation has changed over the years, it's often a common source of confusion.

In the past a restriction on eggs was recommended because we thought that foods high in cholesterol (including liver, kidneys and shellfish, as well as eggs) could have an impact on cholesterol levels in the body.

However, as research in this area has developed, so has our understanding of how foods that contain cholesterol affect people’s heart health.

For most people, the amount of saturated fat they eat has much more of an impact on their cholesterol than eating foods that contain cholesterol, like eggs and shellfish. So unless you have been advised otherwise by your doctor or dietician, if you like eggs, they can be included as part of a balanced and varied diet.

I ate 12 a day for a couple of years in my meat-head days. I didn't die. My tuna, banana and milk consumption may have diluted the eggs though.

Geoff Capes used to eat 20 for breakfast. He was the man

Your hens lay Chorizo?

i've averaging 3 a day

I bet it's a bit wiffy round your gaff! 😳

I got fed up with hard boiled eggs and mostly eat omelettes at the moment. In the summer I was taking them to work frozen and they'd defrosted by lunchtime. Cold omelettes aren't great though....

I was once told that all the scare mongering in the 70's about eggs being bad for you came about after research which was funded by Kelloggs 😉 Don't know if this is true but it would tie in with everyone stoping "going to work on a egg" to the boom in cereal breakfasts.

Cholesterol is fine.
Its only an issue when the LDL oxidizes.
Perhaps think about what brings that on ?....

Also, as you will know, your eggs are only as good as the feed given to the chicken in the first place and the environment the chicken lives in.

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the food that chickens eat contains no cholesterol. however, eggs contain cholesterol.
therefore, 'maybe' food isn't as direct a source of cholesterol as you may think.....

beef contains fat. but cattle don't eat fatty food....

I eat 4-5 every day and my cholesterol level is fine. Load of horse manure that egg yolk is not good for you.

[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/eggs-2 ]A question asked by all great man[/url]. Eat more and long may you cluck...

iDave - Member
'maybe' food isn't as direct a source of cholesterol as you may think.....

As I recall, only about 40% of serum cholesterol is from food, rest is made in liver - the 'problem' with dietary cholesterol is really when you eat a huge binge dose and your cholesterol transport and metabolism gets 'overloaded' and the balance between HDL/LDL production goes towards the 'bad' LDL.

So yes, the direct involvement of food in cholesterol levels is not as strong as some may promote, and also the 'cholesterol levels' many people report are pretty meaningless unless broken down into at least HDL,LDL and Triglycerides.

I used to also eat 4 or 5 egg omelettes then imagined eating 5 fried eggs! I'd never consider that so the omlettes are down to two eggs now 🙄

i buy the pasturised egg whites from MY PROTEIN website and they scramble well. use one full egg and some pure egg whites

you get 32 in a bottle, 6 bottles for 25 quid job done

I stayed in a hotel in Florida last week that had a "special". If you could eat their 20 egg ommelate you got it for free. Although many of the guests looked like they regularly ate 20 egg ommelates, it would probably kill me!

Land of the free!

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Mmm! Century eggs.

"They're not dog eggs are they? Can't see that doing you much good "

Biggest load of bullshit I have ever read on the internetz!

A dogs egg in a little bowl with mustard and black pepper is the best source of protein you will ever find! ! ! ! !

I love eggs.

OM.
NOM.
NOM.

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only 2 eggs this morning, but thats a tactic to make my eggs last til saturday as i dont want to go shopping on friday after work.

all this egg talks makes me miss jamie.

I have 5 scotch eggs for breakfast every day.

[i]the food that chickens eat contains no cholesterol. however, eggs contain cholesterol.
therefore, 'maybe' food isn't as direct a source of cholesterol as you may think.....

beef contains fat. but cattle don't eat fatty food....
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Yes, perhaps I should have included it has been noted that what you feed a chicken influences what you find in your egg.
True [i]free range[/i] chickens feeding on purslane particularly and all the other plants and bugs they like.
Appear to produce eggs which contain higher levels of Omega 3, for example.
My original point is that if you take the time to source eggs from well fed, true free range chickens.
Yours or someone elses, then the levels of nutrients we think we want to be contained in said egg, are likely to be higher.

Also, there seemed to be a few Cholesterolophobic comments earlier, and I'm not sure all the [i]Hype[/i] about Cholesterol is warranted.
Even the lower density stuff is OK, so long as it doesn't oxdize and become part of the body's process of laying down arterial plaque, etc.
Also, as has been mentioned above.
The liver produces cholesterol and monitors blood cholesterol levels in order to [i]maintain[/i] a certain cholesterol level...

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Basically, I'm for eggs although I don't eat many myself.
I'm on a bit of a spinach trip at the moment.

Yes, we miss Jamie.
Perhaps he has completed his tour of duty on STW and is now in a better, safer, place ?.
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2 Goose eggs. Bought em' from a local pub that sell them across the bar (They keep geese out the back).

Delicious fried, and served on top of a pile of chips from the local chippy. Goose-eggs have the best yolks for dipping by far!