6 eggs and 5 bacon for breakfast? Is it good?

Sodo · May 18, 2015

83 is a fairly ripe old age - makes you think doesn't it?

So many more "studies" saying wholesome food is bad,,,, There must something wrong/unsafe with food that can be grown by regular people, (sometimes for free). Studies on chemical additives that make food cheaper to produce in much larger qtys are not very interesting anyway, right? And of course they're all dangerous in high concentrations so who even cares anymore. Other than you eat them all day every day.

Chemicals increase shelf life (warehouse life too) so that's good, right? Everybody's gotta make a living, even mega corporations (who run the local farms& dairies out of business). There are studies that say additives are bad, but how can they get drowned out by the "wholesome food is bad" noise? Is it to confuse us, keep us yakking about "good food bad" and keep buying (or not afraid of) the chemical ingredients?

What would "Money" do ?

MossRoad · May 18, 2015

Overindulging.....
https://vimeo.com/90127834

gladehound · May 18, 2015

Eggs are one of the best foods you can eat. As a teen, I ate 18 eggs a day. My mom worried this was unhealthy because so many studies concluded that eggs were bad (note - they concluded that but the evidence in those same studies does not support that conclusion). After years of 18 eggs a day my mom finally got me to get a blood test. I set a record for the lowest total cholesterol recorded in our towns hospital. My total was 63.

After I was in my 40's I got Lyme disease and had lots of joint problems. This changed my activity level drastically. I got out of shape and my Cholesterol got up to 170 (I know that's not high by many peoples standards but it's high for me). I changed my diet to just meat (and lots of eggs), vegetables and fruit. All organic and nothing processed. In 3 months I dropped 30 pounds, cholesterol went to 135, blood sugar to 79 (was over 100) and it was crazy how much stronger I got. All this happened in 3 months of eating right and doing calisthenics. Get rid of the processed food and enjoy your eggs! :thumbsup:

Citydude · May 18, 2015

MossRoad said:
Overindulging..... https://vimeo.com/90127834

That's funny. Sad thing is, it sounds pretty freaking good!

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Alan L. · May 24, 2015

Eggs are no longer frowned upon so much (I eat 4 for breakfast once or twice a week). But the bacon is super high in fat and sodium. I eat way too much when I eat breakfast - usually 5 to 7 strips.

fordmantpw · May 25, 2015

Sodo said:
I like to imagine that if I can't "chase it down" I don't deserve to eat it. :laughing: :laughing:

Which is why I like eggs. They don't run very fast! :laughing:

TomSeller · May 25, 2015

Very good to hear you are recovering, you have been though a lot and God bless you.

I would not hesitate to eat eggs one bit, but I would encourage eggs from naturally raised chickens. I grew up on eggs with orange yolks from the chickens scratching for bugs in the back yard and did not know what the heck these yellow yolks were when I moved away from home. I recall when a local chicken farmer shut down and gave away his chickens and Mom and I went to get a dozen. I was shocked to find the chickens could not even stand up due to the tiny cages they were kept in. I took a a fancy to keeping those chickens separate from the rest of the flock until they learned to walk upright. I can't believe that eggs from chickens kept like that are healthy.

From a theoretical standpoint, I say an egg is defined by a shell, not the number of yolks. So I say you ate 3 eggs that day. But maybe you will be lucky and get a double tomorrow. I just hope they're not Franken eggs.

buckeyefarmer · May 30, 2015

I'm suddenly hungry for breakfast......

Been doing some geneology, most of the people in my family lived into their late 80's or 90's. They were country people that ate lots of fried foods, lard cooked, etc.... The difference is they did more physical work than people today do.