Should You Be Eating Eggs?

I have written about eggs several times already, as you can see here (I even have them for my breakfast most days), but today I came across an article that paints a somewhat different picture:

https://foodrevolution.org/blog/are-eggs-healthy/

(If that link doesn’t work, you can try this archived version.)

As you can see, the article says you need to consider:

• Ethical issues (e.g. the way they chickens are raised and kept)
• Environmental issues (e.g. how many resources are used to produce eggs)
• Health issues (e.g. antibiotics)
• Nutritional issues (e.g. the protein quality)

And here’s the problem – it’s really difficult to find any type of food where the information available is not conflicting and contradictory.

Science is, of course, never set in stone – new technology is created that allows us to see things we couldn’t see before, researchers are gaining a better or more detailed understanding of how our bodies work and the effects of what we consume all the time, and so on.

That’s why the word “science” is really an abbreviation for the scientific method, but science is a process, a constant search for the best possible and most accurate explanation of how the universe and its constituent parts work.

And, of course, you usually need to follow the money – when you see who sponsored or funded research and look at the results of the research, you are often left wondering just how independent that research really was.

But truly independent research is relatively hard to come by these days – because research costs money.

So, getting back to eggs.

I have read other articles that suggest you should only eat eggs two or three times a week, so for me, I think I shall continue to eat my scrambled eggs with garlic for breakfast (or brunch), but maybe cut back and only have them every alternate day.

This will be a shame, because I really enjoy this snack, but I also have to be careful regarding my heart health, at least while I have my dogs to care for.

And as with all of the food I eat, I shall continue to buy only organic eggs, and hope that they are better (or less bad) than non-organic ones.

Oh, and the link to the Just Egg product in the above article appears to be broken. It seems like this is the current link to learn more about the product and the company, but they don’t appear to sell it online via their site, although it is on Amazon, but only in a six-pack (which I assume is because they ship it via 3-day air and it wouldn’t be economical to ship fewer than six bottles that way). It can also be bought from Walmart (in-store only), and you may find it in a few other stores too.