Question about Raw Eggs.

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Ok so many different stories with raw eggs. I heard that raw eggs has alot of protein and can help you build muscle. But people been saying Don't eat raw eggs, take out the yolk, don't cook eggs otherwise it will take away the protein, eat it before ... after workouts? DOn't eat too much raw eggs. Don't stir it to hardsly, stir it only gentle with a fork? I am well aware that raw eggs can give you samollena or w/e its called, but im willing to take the risk it's like 1 out of 25,000. And plus, is it better eating Protein power or whey than eggs.

Cooked eggs have plenty of protein. I can't think of a good reason to eat a raw egg. The salmonella problem is worse in the U.S. than it is in most other parts of the world, and salmonella can be passed from hen to egg.If you are protein-obsessed, you can get high-protein powder to add to your food.

protein shakes are expensive, so its smart of you to try to get your protein naturally. You don't get any advantage from raw eggs, unless you're Rocky I guess. Crack the eggs, take out the yolks and cook the whites for optimum protein. Also, if you want to gain muscle mass, eat a lot of meats. A good low cost protein shake a friend told me was about 8 oz of milk, a packet of Carnation instant breakfast mix, a banana, and peanut butter in a blender, whip until smooth.

I don't understand the obsession with not eating the yolk. It is the most nutritious part of the egg. I would definitely recommend, to the original poster, eating the yolks. The downside is the high cholesterol found in the yolks. The majority (approximately 80%) of cholesterol is produced from fats we eat and fats in our body. The primary concern with cholesterol should be to stay away from too much saturated fat and eat diets high in monounsaturated fats. Some other types such as omega-3 are very healthy as well, and you can get eggs which have omega-3 fatty acids in them (check the label, or they may even be advertised on the carton as flax seed fed or high in omega-3).In reply to:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_yolk As a food, yolks are a major source of vitamins and minerals. They contain all of the egg's fat and cholesterol, and almost half of the protein.The yolk makes up about 33% of the liquid weight of the egg; it contains approximately 60 calories, four times the caloric content of the egg white.All of the fat soluble vitamins, (A, D, E and K) are found in the egg yolk. Egg yolks are one of the few foods naturally containing vitamin D. Egg yolk is a source of lecithin, an emulsifier.A large yolk contains more than two-thirds of the recommended daily limit of 300mg of cholesterol.Those Carnation instant breakfast's are awesome though. I drink them very often. They're generally consumed by just mixing with milk, but they make awesome shakes too and are a decent source of protein as well as containing numerous other vitamins/minerals and some carbs.

It seems there is no connection between cholesterol levels in the blood and how much cholesterol is in your diet. It seems the tendency to deposit cholesterol in arteries depends on saturated fats, specifically palmitates.

I'm not familiar with palmitates. What kind of foods are they found in?

They are in most saturated fats, but palm oil is particularly high in them. Many deep frying establishments use palm oil.

Those Chineses instant noodles are full of them (unless they've reformulated them recently). The are (or were) often found in commercial cookies and cakes, especially the cheaper ones.

Back around thanksgiving christmas time we were talking about recipesf that we liked and I mentioned eggnog. That led to the raw egg debate and after some research, it turned up fit was actually more like 1 in 9 eggs contained sallmenalla (I know thats not spelled right but you all get the idea)Maybe it was even 1 in 4. fIt seems to me that the statistics are on this site in a thread from that date area and it ha to do with recipes if you want to search for it.If its protien ya want, get it from cooked eggs and get it from protien shakes.fId hit Helms up about it thru a PM, hes into the whole diet and wieght lifting lifestyle. What Iv read is that your best bet is to take whey+protien+creatine in a shake AFTER a work out. fThe theory is that you dont build muscle when you lift, you build it after. when you lift you tear the muscle, growth occurs after lifting when your body is repairing the tears and resting and that is the time to have the extra diet aids available for th body to utilize them.

tuna's an excellent source of omega 3.

Tuna's moderately good, but it's a very lean fish so there's not much fat on it. The best fish source of omega-3 I know of is salmon, but there's no doubt that tuna is still good and is a great source of lean protein. Flax is a very good plant source.Edit: I've done some reading on omega-3 and apparently sources of DHA and EPA (2 of the three types of omega-3s) tend to have more positive effects than ALA, which is supposed to convert to DHA and EPA in the body. Fish is high in DHA and EPA while plant sources like walnuts and flax seed oil are high in ALA. Seems to be that ALA is difficult for some people to convert and it is not usuable in its own form by the body.

What about Vegetables, like Carrots? Or actaully what makes a good dish that has everything, Iron Protein Magnesium etc.

"Why would anyone eat the eggs in a raw form? Heating the egg protein actually changes its chemical shape, and it is this change in the protein structure which can easily be a cause of allergies. The heating also destroys many of the nutrients and proteins found inside the egg." http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/raw-eggs.htmi heard this from other sites as well.and i live in canada i don't know if that makes a difference but just saying it. My main question is when do u eat raw eggs. Before or After workouts or any time in the day.

Salmonella is most definitely a concern for the following types of people: the young, the elderly, pregnant or nursing women, those who are acutely or chronically sick.That said, salmonella is passed from infected hens to their eggs so yes it's possible that you have that stuff in your system already and don't even know it. However, most people don't know that E. Coli live in their intestines either.Anyhow, if you're going to eat raw eggs you need to be checked out by your doctor. However, I'm willing to bet that your doctor can tell you where to find better sources of protein other than eating raw eggs which essentially..you get about the same amount of protein from cooking them that you do eating them raw.

My mother was pretty thin when she was a little girl, and her mother would give her drinks with raw eggs to fatten her up. That was a very long time ago. People have been eating raw eggs for a long time. But people have been doing a lot of things for a long time that have no good basis.It's true that cooking an egg will transform it in some ways, but there is little scientific evidence that I've seen that it makes much of a difference for your body. That it makes a difference for the reason that body builders claim appears to be a baseless superstition.-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-The article you refer to originally comes from Dr. Mercola, who sells diet books. In my opinion, some of his ideas are on the scientific fringe. Folks like him put together a system of ideas that seem self-consistent and logical, but actually have no scientific basis. That's where things like fad diets come from.I read the NIH reference, and a paper that it referenced about incidence of Salmonella enteritidis in eggs in the U.S. (published in 2000), and it appears to be 0.005% (rather than the 0.003% mentioned in Mercola's article). What he didn't mention is that the contaminated eggs tend to be clustered, so that in most places you'd probably be safe, but in other places, eating raw eggs would be much more risky.What I don't agree with is his saying that a salmonella infection is no big deal for a healthy person. That is a highly irresponsible comment. Salmonella can make a healthy person quite ill. The implication is that getting sick is still a good tradeoff for the gain from eating raw eggs. That is an unscientific claim if ever I heard one.

I saw these pastuerized eggs at the supermarket.