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Ahhh the old "eggs are bad for you" meme. Eggs are demonstrably healthy. Just don't fry them in a gallon of butter and you'll be fine.




As Lenny once said on the Simpsons: "While it has been established that eggs contain cholesterol, it has not yet been proven conclusively that they actually raise the level of serum cholesterol in the human bloodstream."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAFMFFQlkI


So, one of those Egg Council creeps got to you too?

It's not that eggs are bad.

It's more that that's a shit ton of eggs. Money aside, this just contributes even more to the incredibly polluting factory farm industry.

A suppliment synthesized in a lab has far less ecological impact. Also it's far cheaper.


It's 400 calories worth of eggs, a very modest meal that would get you to just 1200 calories a day. That is not a shit ton of eggs.

Back when I was in college I would eat 6 eggs plus some fruit for breakfast because I was flat broke and they kept me full all day.


4 eggs a day isnt a shit ton of eggs by any means.

Then demonstrate?

In 2015, the U.S. Dietary Guidelines shifted from implying that one egg a day is “probably a bit much” to saying “one egg a day is fine if you don’t fry it.” This coincided with the removal of the quantitative cap of 300 mg/day on dietary cholesterol (a single egg basically maxes that out).

EDIT: The calorie count used to compute the portion of the comment below were incorrect. I'm leaving it unchanged for posterity, but want to clarify that an egg has about 80 cals.

Four eggs a day is almost 1,000 calories of egg, roughly half of many people’s total daily calorie intake.


Fat and cholesterol don’t hurt you, or make you fat.

Sitting on ass does.

If you are looking to the landing page of any of those major bodies to figure out how to fuel your body, good luck.


I'm sorry, but this just sounds like the "Forbidden Knowledge" Trick (think of it as a cousin to Galileo's Gambit)

(1) In your most authoritative tone, state something as fact without citation.

(2) Say major testing-based orgs are never going to give you the real truth.

We have a system for knowledge. I think it is an absurd mess, but I trust it way more than anything presented in the format you’ve just used.

Maybe this is just a formatting issue and you have credible information to back your claim, but as it is currently presented it does not pass the sniff test.

So, as politely as possible, pass.


Good news: I wasn't trying to sell you anything!

Read other people's experiences, and feel your own body.

Or, politely as possible: don't, I don't care.

It's truly up to you.


Wait, what? Of course you were!

Heck, you still are; "Read other people's experiences and feel your own body." That is a mode of interacting with the external world and processing knowledge. You didn't even suggest I do it; your sentence was a directive. Furthermore, it was packaged in that cool detached "above it all" way that humans sometimes use to convince others.

It's good/okay/whatever to try and sell people on your worldview. I was engaged and conversing that is the social cue to do so. The fact that you didn't convince me is whatever on the internet. But playing it off like you weren't doing that... why?

I'm pretty sure the number of times someone has been convinced on the internet wouldn't even correctly round in IEEE double-precision floating point.


I didn’t try to sell you anything that I would benefit from.

Incentive structures matter.

I'm "above it all" because it's a casual internet comment; I've got nothing on the line.

Reading matters, too...I never said "never", and everything you've been saying since then has been a weird dress down.


What? A jumbo egg is like 70-100 calories.

Like most things I’m sure you can overdo it. But if you’re choosing between cereal and a bagel or a couple of eggs, I think most would be better off with the eggs.


You're 100% right. In the back of my head I had egg at 200+ calories

Maybe they're eating goose eggs.



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