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Over what quantity is eating eggs harmful, like two in a single meal,and to which organs?

I'm asking since there's a friend of mine, who states that thanks to "biotin", thay are basically harmless, so he eats them 2 in a row.

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  • on 2011-01-20 13:54:20
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Jon-Richfield says:

If your friend is serious, he has a problem: his biotin remark is nonsense.

Whether he has or will have a problem from eating too many eggs is another matter. If he eats two a day, he would have to have something seriously  wrong with him to come to any harm; If he were to eat two twelve times a day over a long series of days, he would be looking for trouble.

In themselves eggs are an excellent food, and we eat more of them than we realise, because we get them in more foods than many of us other than the likes of Nicholas suspect. However, there is no excellent food that cannot be overdone, even by a "typical, healthy person". 

How many are too many? An occasional binge is unlikely to hurt anyone with no special health problem. A daily dose of say, four to six eggs in a diet rich in roughage and fresh vegetable material, might be all right, but whether to would be a good idea, is another matter, either for your digestion, your circulation, or any sensitive person sharing your dwelling.

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posted on 2011-01-20 18:00:46 | Report abuse


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LokiNight says:

Did your friend mention "egg white disease" & vitamin H ?

I think it's mostly/completely bollocks ~ all those mail order & high street pill-pushers [chemist shops & health food shops]  rely on a fearful & gullible public

 

Michael

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posted on 2011-01-21 03:49:35 | Report abuse


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Jon-Richfield says:

Well Michael, I agree about most of the bollocks, but it has been well known for a long time that raw egg white does contain avidin, a protein that  binds to biotin vigorously enough to cause a dangerous deficiency if you eat too much raw egg white for too long. I went on line for some details and found at least one zealot swearing by as many raw egg yolks daily as you could swallow, more or less, but consigning whites to biological warfare.

Now, I reckon that you can eat as much cooked egg as your body feels comfortable with, with very little risk, though I am not all that comfortable with so much cholesterol (I doubt it does much harm, but...)

My unfailing tune on the megaphone remains: eat it in comfortable quantities, tgether with comfortable quantities of other foods, taken together with exercise and good cheer.

And I don't care a fig (especially not a ripe, sweet, aromatic, tasty fig!) who disagrees.

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posted on 2011-01-21 11:35:15 | Report abuse

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LokiNight says:
Hi Jon Agreed BTW. I love fig rolls. A delicious food unknown in many parts of the world ~ better than just plain figs.  I read about fig wasps in one of Dawkins' books & was put off figs for... maybe 5 seconds
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posted on 2011-01-22 10:48:05 | Report abuse

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Jon-Richfield says:

Good grief Michael!

>I love fig rolls.<

Agreed. Interestingly, I don't know whether things have changed, but when I was in England I was surprised to find no fig jam on the shelves. Good fig jam (and also various forms of fig conserves) is a favourite in South Africa, and I had assumed that this was general. One lives... learns...

But better than figs??? What kind of figs do you know? There are some tasteless figs that are only good for conserves, such as most seedling volunteers, but a halfway decent fig, let alone some of the noblest varieties, properly ripe but sound, still in its skin, delicate and rich, but subtle, rewarding and refreshing; the best thing you can do to it is eat it as it is (ideally in a fig tree at about 40C). To augment it is like livening Napoleon brandy with a cheap cola plus ice. (For me, worse; I don't like brandy!)

Dawkins' wrotings might not quite have put you off figs, but you should have a look at  the inside of some of our indigenous figs when they are ripe; it is like kicking the bivouac of a driver ant colony!

Mind you, those figs don't taste good raw anyway.

Oh well, fig rolls aren't really bad if you can't get ripe figs...

 

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posted on 2011-01-24 11:10:09 | Report abuse


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