Yes ZEB, your statistics are right. One could flip a coin 100, 1000, etc or more times and theoretically never come up with one side or the other. Nonetheless, we call the odds on coin flipping one out of 2 because there are 2 possible outcomes. In the egg case, one person may never get it over 30 years while another might get a case yearly. My point was that Mercola was understating the risk factor. It varies on each person’s intake.
Zulu, sure life is full of risk factors but don’t you weigh out the potential reward? Would you poke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick just to see how far in it would go? No cause you would not gain anything from it. Im with BrentM, I dont think cooked vs raw nutritionally is a big deal. It won’t affect your squatting weight but raw eggs may get you doing a lot of squatting with no weight courtesy of a free colon blow.
I would really like to know the actual statistic as to how many americans really get sick eating raw eggs per year? I wonder…
I have a difficult time trusting certain “studies” backed by drug companies. Remember these are the same companies who convinced us that we all had to have low cholesterol or we were going to die!
Don’t get me wrong I agree with you when it comes to unnecessary risks (read my posts in the “Hypocrisy” thread). But, I do wonder exactly how dangerous raw eggs are. Where are the facts?