Eat More Eggs! Rookie Tip of the Week

Did you know that eggs are considered a superfood because they are packed with nutrition? And that pregnant and nursing women should eat at least one – two eggs each day? Do you wonder which eggs you should buy?

I can’t believe how many people still think eggs are bad for your heart. See this WAP article for great info about all the ways eggs are good so for us.

Eggs are great for babies, too! The first solid food our youngest baby had was gently cooked egg yolks with organic butter and a little sea salt at about 6 months. (I’ve read that the egg whites, which contain difficult-to-digest proteins for babies, should not be given before the age of one year. Read more here on caring for babies, including a link at the bottom to an article explaining which solids should be given first, and why to stay away from baby cereals.) No matter what stage of life you are at, eggs are great for our brains.

WHICH EGGS ARE THE HEALTHIEST?

1. Hands down, eggs from a local farm with pasture-fed chickens are the healthiest eggs. (Of course, they shouldn’t be given antibiotics or hormones.) Local eggs that haven’t had to travel long distances are going to have a higher nutritional value. When the chickens are pasture-fed the way they were meant to be and eating what they’re supposed to be eating, they’ll be healthier. Healthier chickens equal healthier eggs.  (See WAP post above for more info.)
   
2. Next best would be store-bought eggs that are “cage free”. Do not buy “omega 3″ eggs – I’ve read that we were never meant to get our omega 3’s from chickens fed flax – instead we should get it from the best source: a good quality cod liver oil and grass fed beef.
3. Least healthy are eggs from conventional farms with chickens raised in confinement and given antibiotics. But as the Weston A. Price Foundation advises, if these are the only eggs you can find, eat them anyway because they’re so good for you.

• Never use imitation egg products – according to the WAPF, imitation egg products cause rapid death in test animals. And why would you eat those anyway, when real eggs are so good for you?!
• Never eat just the egg whites – the yolk is the most nutrient dense part! Components present in the yolk help digest the whites; nutrients present in the whites help digest the yolks. God put them together in nature for a reason! (As explained above, the only exception is when feeding babies; they can’t digest the whites until over age one.)

Let go of what you used to hear about eggs not being good for you. Think common sense: eggs are a natural food that have been around for thousands of years – there is nothing new about them, and they remain, as always, a healthy food!

CLICK THE LINK FOR SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE EGG RECIPES IN ONE POST.

• Is it safe to eat raw eggs?
• Does fat make you fat?
• Rookie Tips
• My favorite kitchen gadgets
• Cholesterol medicines
• Overweight kids - 16 ways to help
• Read this excerpt from “Real Food” by Nina Planck
• “Free Range and Pastured Eggs Are Not the Same”
• Are Eggs Nature’s Statin?
• A very informative post on eggs!

photo by Idcross

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