Food Diary (April 14, 2012)
Breakfast: Toast
Lunch: Taro, vegetable stir fry
Dinner: Mixed vegetables and rice
Baking/sweets: various
Today's Favourite Photo
Mascarpone-Crème Caramel
Today’s Favourite Blog
We are increasingly seeing reversals in food recommendations by researchers. Coconut oil for example is now considered healthy. The newest U.S. Department of Agriculture Dietary Guidelines allows eating up to one egg a day, yolk and all, within a healthful eating plan.
The egg yolk, with about 213 milligrams (mg) per serving, is one of the most concentrated sources of cholesterol in the diet, though there is recent debate over how high-cholesterol foods really impact heart disease.
Recent studies show that the relationship between dietary cholesterol and blood levels of cholesterol, the type that causes heart disease, is very complex and highly individual. Research has failed to provide conclusive evidence that one egg a day can raise your blood cholesterol or risk for heart disease.
Yolks contain high quality protein and essential vitamins and nutrients. One of the most powerful benefits of the yolk is the concentration of lutein and zeaxanthin, carotenoids responsible for its rich, golden color. They are key components in the human eye, and eating foods that contain these nutrients preserves good eyesight and prevents vision loss.
While spinach and some other foods are excellent sources of lutein and zeaxanthin, a study published in the Journal of Nutrition found that lutein in eggs is three times more available to your body, compared with an equivalent amount of cooked spinach.
Yay! Good news for me! I love eggs and runny yolk. I think if I wait long enough, whatever "bad" things I'm eating today will probably be good some day.
ReplyDeleteThe researchers are getting better, give it time!
DeleteI have never had taro! I think I see it often here in some ethnic groceries though...
ReplyDeleteI have heard this egg discovery some time ago and must say it works in my case. I have been eating really much more eggs than any of my friends or family (I love eggs and, like Ping, runny yolk.... leftover rice, soy sauce and fried egg on top with runny yolk is a real feast for me!) for really long years and my cholesterol test results are excellent. It's not the first time I hear the nutrients contained in animal products are better assimilated by human body.
There are many different varieties of taro, I've also seen purple ones.
DeleteThat seems true, iron and protein from animals for example is better absorbed.
So the solution should be spinach omlettes for the right amount of leutin. Plus, they're tasty.
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DeleteI'm a huge believer in eating eggs and my naturopath says the more the merrier as long as they're organic. I'd love to have my own chickens so I could fetch my own eggs. I don't pay too much attention to what the 'experts' tell us we should and shouldn't eat because so often they're wrong! xx
ReplyDeleteIt would be great to have a couple of chickens, and get about 2 fresh eggs daily. At the end you can eat the two chickens!
DeleteI love eating eggs so that's good news for me!!!!
ReplyDeleteI know many people who avoids yolks and I think it's awful to waste something so nutritious! I believe that it's the type of fat that we eat that affects our cholesterol levels, more than the dietary cholesterol itself. However, the media seems to have everyone confused!
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