It was a normal dream.
I honestly don’t remember; it was too long ago. But next thing I know, all that appeared were people with egg heads.
That can’t be normal. What kind of nightmare was this? Some off-brand Coraline egghead type melodrama.
For now, I was wide awake and sleep was out of the question. I slowly started to get overtaken by cravings for eggs: perhaps the best way to get rid of the scary sensation is to eat it?
Anyways, I charged down, rinsed the frying pan, dried the frying pan (important), ignited, drizzled a silver dollar droplet of avocado oil, one, two, three, four, five, six eggs in.
Quick note: Always crack the egg with one hand. Less egg sticks to your hand and maximizes the volume of egg on the pan possible. Sure, Gordon Ramsey uses both hands but he’s a chef, not a mathematician.
Kidding, I know nothing compared to Gordon Ramsey and I bet it hardly matters.
Well, 6-8 eggs were usually what I went for. Nutrition-wise, it had everything: 7g protein, 1.6g saturated fat, 3.4g nonsaturated fat, other minerals, iron, vitamins. After all, a living being would have to be formed from the egg.
But a lot of concern has been raised. Doctors usually recommend only around four eggs per week as the amount of cholesterol, even though it has both the good HDL and bad LDL, can still cause risks of health issues, such as heart disease or blood pressure abnormalities.
But now scientists now say that cholesterol hardly has any impact on the actual cholesterol levels in our bodies. Most of the variations in cholesterol originates from the liver and the liver tends to be more influenced by the amount of saturated fat consumed in the diet rather than the present cholesterol.
But nutritionists now say that the amount of saturated fat provided from eggs can be significant enough to influence the liver to dangerous amounts of correlated cholesterol produced in our bodies. Especially because eggs aren’t the main course: there is the meat, the bread, the dairy, etc, there are so many other sources of saturated fat that eggs would be adding too much on top of the main course.
But athletes say that with a proper diet and exercise, a lot of the saturated fat can be covered for due to the innate metabolic boost that arises both during and after a session completed in any form of exercise.
That pretty much sums up the history of eggs. It was always a battle of “buts” that always steered people one way or the other. One day there would be an article of the “Top 5 benefits of eggs” and another day there would be a study on the 87.142235% increased risk of getting heart disease.
So for me, I just really enjoy eggs. No matter what type, method, venue, eggs are a timeless classic. No matter how detrimental a health effect eggs could have, I personally like to believe that the emotional value of eating them would make me far happier.
If there’s anything we should be worried about, it’s the food poisoning from eggs.
Maybe that’s where my crazy dreams came from in the first place.
Sources:
https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/good-eggs-for-nutrition-theyre-hard-to-beat#1
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323001.php#cholesterol-
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-many-eggs-can-you-eat-on-a-heart-healthy-diet/