Why are eggs bad for you?

Answer 1

Eggs are very healthy for you because they give you lots of protein and energy, and contain vitamins D and B12.
Eggs are very good for you and they contain lots of vitamins, minerals and amino acids.

Fertilized eggs I think are much better for you.

The egg white can make a great facial mask.

Answer 2

There is a risk involved in eating eggs to excess, because they are high in cholesterol. But moderate consumption of eggs is good for you. They are very nutritious. I advise that you do not eat more than a dozen per week.

Answer 3

Eggs are rich in protein, cholesterol,vitamins...etc

the cholesterol content of one egg is around 300mg.

eggs are also rich in anti-cholesterol substances as well

Many studies have been conducted to see the effects of an "egg-rich diet" on cholesterol, and most, if not all, have found that it raises the good cholesterol and reduced the bad one...also it provides the body with very good quality proteins and amino acids that are needed to repair the body and are a good source of energy

This anti-egg movement started in the 1930's when cereal companies were on the rise. People were still having the good old "sausage and scrambled eggs" for breakfast, and no one was interested in the terrible, nutrient-poor, sugar-full cereals. So these companies funded a study to prove that eggs were bad for you. the study was conducted on rats that were fed dried hydrogenated eggs, and their cholesterol shot up. First of all, I've never heard of anyone eating dried eggs in my life. Also, anything hydrogenated becomes poisonous. so, unless you dry and hydrogenate your eggs (treat them through a hyperbaric hydrogen chamber), you can have eggs everyday!!

you wont get fat, nor would you increase your cholesterol. infact, you might notice that you are getting healthier!!

Answer 4

Chicken eggs are the perfect food…for the chick embryo developing inside them. Not so much for humans. There are many reasons to eliminate eggs from your diet. Here are a few:

1. You don’t want to have a heart attack or stroke. Eggs are the highest cholesterol food known to man. An August 2012 headline from The Atlantic summed it up: Eggs Are Nearly as Bad for Your Arteries as Cigarettes. In a country where almost half of Americans ages 40 to 75 and nearly all men over 60 need cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, why wouldn’t we instead eliminate these little cholesterol bombs from our diets? Eggs are also high choline, and within 24 hours, gut bacteria can turn choline into a toxic substance called trimethylamine, which then gets oxidized in your liver to trimethylamine-n-oxide (TMAO), which then circulates throughout your bloodstream. TMAO may increase the buildup of cholesterol in the inflammatory cells in the atherosclerotic plaques in your arteries, increasing your risk of cardiac surgery, heart attack, stroke, and death.
   
   
2. You don’t want cancer. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine reports that eggs have been linked to increased risk of colon cancer, rectal cancer, and bladder cancer. “Eggs have zero dietary fiber, are devoid of cancer-fighting antioxidants, and about 60 percent of the calories in eggs are from fat—a big portion of which is saturated fat. They are also loaded with cholesterol—about 213 milligrams for an average-sized egg.” Several studies link egg consumption with ovarian cancer, including the Nurse’s Health Study, and studies published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, the American Journal of Epidemiology, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. Eggs are high choline, and choline consumption is associated with developing prostate cancer, spreading it, and a significantly increased risk of dying from it. Men who consume one egg every three days (or more) have an 81% increased risk of lethal prostate cancer. Harvard researchers speculate that the TMAO from high dietary choline intake may increase inflammation and this may promote progression of prostate cancer to lethal disease.
   
   
3. You don’t want to develop diabetes. Eggs increase the risk for not only Heart disease and cancer, but also for diabetes (the leading cause of lower-limb amputations, kidney failure, and new cases of blindness), according to a meta-analysis published in Atherosclerosis. People who consumed the most eggs had a 68% increased risk for developing diabetes, compared with those who ate the fewest eggs. For those who already had diabetes, the risk for developing heart disease from eating the most eggs jumped by 83%. Even just a single egg a week may increase the risk of diabetes.
   
   
4. You don’t want to make your family sick. Because conditions on egg farms are crowded, eggs are plagued with salmonella and other bacteria that lead to recalls and public health threats. Because of this, many egg farms rely heavily on antibiotics, contributing to the development of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
   
   
5. You care about the health and working conditions of farm laborers. Egg farms stack hens on top of each other over manure pits so farmers don’t have to clean cages. The air in the barns is toxic for the animals and humans who enter. In 2009, four Department of Agriculture workers were incapacitated from entering the ammonia-filled barns of a Maine egg producer and had to treated by doctors for burned lungs. If such short exposure causes such distress, can you imagine working in one of these facilities, let alone being forced to spend your entire life there, as the hens are? After then-Labor Secretary Robert Reich toured an egg factory in 1996 he described “some of the most heinous workplace violations I’d seen. His workers had been forced to live in trailers infested with rats and handle manure and dead chickens with their bare hands. It was an agricultural sweatshop.”
   
   
6. You don’t want to support cruelty. Shortly after birth, the male and female chicks are separated by workers on a conveyor belt. The males are either tossed into trash bags to suffocate or ground up alive in a machine called a macerator. Video at Hy-Line hatchery in Spencer, Iowa shows healthy male chicks peeping as they are fed live into rotating blades. About 200 million male chicks are killed by the egg industry every year. The female chicks have the ends of their beaks cut off with a hot blade so that they don’t hurt each other out of frustration during their intense confinement. It takes approximately 34 hours for a hen to produce an egg. To keep up with demand, 346 million hens are used by the egg industry every year. Five to 11 hens are crammed into tiny wire “battery” cages. On average, each hen’s living space is about the size of an iPad. The cages are often stacked on top of one another, which allows urine and feces to fall down onto birds in the lower cages. Large piles of feces below the cages are common on some egg farms. Because of the terrible living conditions, chickens often die in their cages. They are sometimes left to rot in the same space with living birds. After about two years, those who have survived are killed. At the slaughterhouse, some laying hens meet the same bloody end as that of chickens raised for their meat. They are shackled and hung upside down, they are electrocuted, their throats are cut, and they are often scalded to death. (Source, with pictures and video.) Other producers consider laying hens too cheap to spend money sending to a slaughterhouse. Undercover video documented “hens suffocating in garbage cans, twirled by their necks , kicked into manure pits to drown.” In 2003, 30,000 unwanted hens were fed live into a wood chipper at Ward Egg Ranch in San Diego County, California. Many hens die in fires, like one in Michigan in 2003 that killed 250,000 hens.

Answer 5

well,yes but free range eggs are better than caged.

Answer 6

Yes they are, but only if they are cooked. Some people say that the egg whites are good to drink, but don't trust them.

Answer 7

the eggyolk is important in our body to become healthy

Answer 8

2-3 eggs per week are good for you. however the more eggs you eat increases the protien in your body which is harmful.

Answer 9

you should but scrambled