Eggs should always have a place on your plate. They have a great taste and an amazing nutrition profile. Unfortunately, whole eggs get a bad reputation, especially the egg yolk, so people cut it out of their diet.
But I’m here with the help of health24.com and Berkley Wellness to give you the real facts about eggs. First of all, they are one of the best sources of protein. If you want to strengthen your muscles, you need amino acids. Eggs provide your body with a bunch of amino acids.
Below, health24.com and Berkley Wellness have provided the top benefits of eating whole eggs.
Improve Performance: Health24 states that one full egg gives your body 6g of protein. This means they have a great satiety index, which means they make you full longer. Combining eggs with orange juice to get your vitamin C will help you perform in challenging situations.
Great Source of Iron: Health24 states that Iron is what carries oxygen in the blood and is important for maintaining a strong immunity. The iron in egg yolk is the most absorbable and usable.
Eggs Do Not Increase Cholesterol: According to Berkley Wellness, a study was conducted by the University of Connecticut that was published in Metabolism. It concluded that eggs do not increase LDL (bad cholesterol).
Eggs Do Not Harm Your Heart: Berkley Wellness mentions a Japanese study conducted and published in the British Journal of Nutrition in 2006. It consisted of 90,000 middle-aged people and found no link between the consumption of eggs and heart disease.
Eggs May Benefit Your Heart: The vitamins, nutrients and unsaturated fat in eggs could be beneficial to your heart, according to Berkley Wellness. Eggs have only 1.5g of unsaturated fat and 70 calories. All the fried foods that come with eggs have 12g of unsaturated fat!
Great For Your Eyes: Whole eggs contain lutein and zeaxanthin. Berkley Wellness believes that they could be beneficial for eye health. A study published in the Journal of Nutrition in 2006 could support this. It found that women who ate six eggs a week for 12 weeks increased their macular pigment.
Promote Weight Loss: As mentioned earlier, eggs promote satiety. A study in Nutrition Research in 2010 proves it. It found that men who ate three eggs for breakfast felt full. They consumed fewer calories for lunch and dinner because of it.
Now that you can see that whole eggs are beneficial to your health, Berkley Wellness also mentions that you should also know each one contains 6g of protein, vitamin B, vitamin A, iron and other beneficial nutrients.
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