benefits of eating an egg

Eggs are one of the oldest foods known to mankind and their high nutritional value and relatively cheap cost have made it into one of the most eaten foods in the world.

In the last decade, egg has gotten a bad reputation due to the high amounts of cholesterol in the yolk, and every day more individuals are opting to eat egg whites only or egg substitute products.

But interestingly enough, the majority of nutrients in an egg are found in the yolk, including one nutrient that helps prevent the oxidation of the cholesterol in the yolk. This nutrient is lost when the egg is cooked at high temperatures such as frying. Without this nutrient, the cholesterol in the egg’s yolk oxidizes, meaning it turns into the bad cholesterol that sticks to veins and arteries, clogging them up.

A raw egg has more nutrients than a cooked egg because many different nutrients are heat sensitive and disappear with the cooking process.

But eating raw egg doesn’t guarantee that it will be good for us.

In the last two decades, traditional egg faros have been replaced by giant warehouses that use deplorable methods for raising their hens. These hens are fed animal remains and are given antibiotics and hormones. The result of this is a super hen that lays as many as 16 eggs in a single day when the normal amount is one egg per day. These eggs are full of hormones and antibiotics but have very little nutritional value.

Because of this unhealthy way of producing eggs, anyone who is interested in benefiting from an egg’s nutritional value must always look for “Certified Organic” eggs. This guarantees that the eggs will come from hens that were not caged, were fed a vegetarian diet and were not treated with antibiotics and hormones.

Recent studies have proven that a healthy
adult can eat as many as two eggs per day without having an increase in his or her cholesterol level. In addition to this, recent research shows that certain nutrients found in the egg’s yolk help fight migraine headaches and repair the brain.