Does the process of boiling an egg white change the content value of cholesterol? Every site says that egg whites have no cholesterol, but when I check the nutritional value of a boiled egg white it says that it contains 11mg of cholesterol. Check the link: http://www.thedailyplate.com/nutrition-calories/food/generic/hard-boiled-egg-white-no-yolk
The purpose of this question is that I want to know if it would be safe for a person to eat like 15 egg whites a day to get more protein.
Yes it’s safe.
Cholesterol from eggs is healthy. Dietary cholesterol intake is not directly correlated to blood levels of cholesterol. Cholesterol is one of the main “ingredients” in the production of testosterone.
The amount of cholesterol you eat has almost NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on your blood cholesterol levels. Up your intake by 1000% and you might see a 10% increase in blood cholesterol levels. Pretty insignificant, in other words.
That means that whole eggs are safe and that egg whites are safe.
I’m way too tired to list sources properly, but the fourth edition of Biochemistry by Champe, Harvey and Ferrier agrees. My teachers (at the Karolinska Institute, the university that decides who gets the Nobel prize in medicine or physiology) agree and, last but not least, I think MODOK agrees. He is, however, free to deny this completely.
EDIT: I wrote this before i saw BONEZ’s post, which I completely agree with.
[quote]mls_fan wrote:
Does the process of boiling an egg white change the content value of cholesterol? Every site says that egg whites have no cholesterol, but when I check the nutritional value of a boiled egg white it says that it contains 11mg of cholesterol. Check the link: http://www.thedailyplate.com/nutrition-calories/food/generic/hard-boiled-egg-white-no-yolk
The purpose of this question is that I want to know if it would be safe for a person to eat like 15 egg whites a day to get more protein.[/quote]
so 150mg of cholesterol compared to the 2-3kg your body pumps out every day? i would be much more concerned with the loss of all that glorious nutrition in the yolk
[quote]thruxton45 wrote:
so 150mg of cholesterol compared to the 2-3kg your body pumps out every day? i would be much more concerned with the loss of all that glorious nutrition in the yolk[/quote]
Forgive my contingent ignorance, but could you back that statement up?
As far as I know, we lose 0,5 grams of bile acids/salts (which are made from cholesterol) per day and of course some steroids in the urine, which makes 2-3 kgs sound like one hell of a statement.
Uh, yeah. Poliquin, Mercola, Berardi, and Bowden all agree that eggs are 100% safe, and very good for you. Stop worrying.
[quote]thruxton45 wrote:
[quote]mls_fan wrote:
Does the process of boiling an egg white change the content value of cholesterol? Every site says that egg whites have no cholesterol, but when I check the nutritional value of a boiled egg white it says that it contains 11mg of cholesterol. Check the link: http://www.thedailyplate.com/nutrition-calories/food/generic/hard-boiled-egg-white-no-yolk
The purpose of this question is that I want to know if it would be safe for a person to eat like 15 egg whites a day to get more protein.[/quote]
so 150mg of cholesterol compared to the 2-3kg your body pumps out every day? i would be much more concerned with the loss of all that glorious nutrition in the yolk[/quote]
Hang on… 2-3kg is 4-6 POUNDS of cholesterol. That sounds like a lot. Wikipedia says the average production for a 150lb human is about 1000mg a day. Now the average T-Nationite is gonna be at least 200lbs and on a low carb diet, so maybe they’ll get up to 2000mg. Still, that’s no where close to 2kg.
How did you get those numbers?
Additional motivation to eat eggs with reckless abandon: highest NPU of fish, chicken, beef.
Also, I’d just down the egg too - if you’re concerned with cholesterol, doesn’t the yolk and the egg together have some odd effect with the word biotin involved that neutralizes it? I could be totally hallucinating though.
[quote]CapnYousef wrote:
Additional motivation to eat eggs with reckless abandon: highest NPU of fish, chicken, beef.
Also, I’d just down the egg too - if you’re concerned with cholesterol, doesn’t the yolk and the egg together have some odd effect with the word biotin involved that neutralizes it? I could be totally hallucinating though.[/quote]
BONEZ could teach a masters course on this.
[quote]Xab wrote:
[quote]thruxton45 wrote:
[quote]mls_fan wrote:
Does the process of boiling an egg white change the content value of cholesterol? Every site says that egg whites have no cholesterol, but when I check the nutritional value of a boiled egg white it says that it contains 11mg of cholesterol. Check the link: http://www.thedailyplate.com/nutrition-calories/food/generic/hard-boiled-egg-white-no-yolk
The purpose of this question is that I want to know if it would be safe for a person to eat like 15 egg whites a day to get more protein.[/quote]
so 150mg of cholesterol compared to the 2-3kg your body pumps out every day? i would be much more concerned with the loss of all that glorious nutrition in the yolk[/quote]
Hang on… 2-3kg is 4-6 POUNDS of cholesterol. That sounds like a lot. Wikipedia says the average production for a 150lb human is about 1000mg a day. Now the average T-Nationite is gonna be at least 200lbs and on a low carb diet, so maybe they’ll get up to 2000mg. Still, that’s no where close to 2kg.
How did you get those numbers? [/quote]
I suspect redundant use of the letter k.
If you eat less cholesterol, your body will make more, if you eat more, your body will make less. People don’t understand this, so they avoid items with any Cholesterol present, and not only miss out on nutrients (like mentioned above, from the egg yolks!), but make themselves crazy in the process.
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[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
[quote]CapnYousef wrote:
Additional motivation to eat eggs with reckless abandon: highest NPU of fish, chicken, beef.
Also, I’d just down the egg too - if you’re concerned with cholesterol, doesn’t the yolk and the egg together have some odd effect with the word biotin involved that neutralizes it? I could be totally hallucinating though.[/quote]
BONEZ could teach a masters course on this.[/quote]
HOT DAMN I got something right for once. My family is half regular MDs and half crackpot NDs (Natural Doctors) so they go on and on about the effect of the biotin in the yolk on the cholesterol in the overall egg. As in, eating one without the other creates your cholesterol issue - combining them there’s some neutralization effect.
[quote]CapnYousef wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
[quote]CapnYousef wrote:
Additional motivation to eat eggs with reckless abandon: highest NPU of fish, chicken, beef.
Also, I’d just down the egg too - if you’re concerned with cholesterol, doesn’t the yolk and the egg together have some odd effect with the word biotin involved that neutralizes it? I could be totally hallucinating though.[/quote]
BONEZ could teach a masters course on this.[/quote]
HOT DAMN I got something right for once. My family is half regular MDs and half crackpot NDs (Natural Doctors) so they go on and on about the effect of the biotin in the yolk on the cholesterol in the overall egg. As in, eating one without the other creates your cholesterol issue - combining them there’s some neutralization effect.
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The problems surrounding excessive biotin dont apply if the egg is cooked. Biotin is a separate issue from cholesterol though.
Eat Whole Eggs