Audience : The egg is it a health food?
Dr. Laurence Plumey, nutritionist : The egg is a food absolutely fantastic because it has high protein and excellent nutritional value. It also contains 5 minerals and trace elements in very large amounts, some of which are antioxidants. There are iron, iodine, selenium, phosphorus and also a lot of vitamins in the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, K, eat two eggs amounts to cover 25 to 30% sometimes even 50% of the daily requirement of these vitamins also not forget the B group vitamins nitrosolubles
Audience : How often do you eat eggs?
Dr. Laurence Plumey : There are no restrictions to do that is healthy or whether one is a little too big and they do a restrictive diet, which has a rate too high in the coglycérides blood. In short, there is nothing wrong with eating eggs every day.
Audience : The egg is not he too fat?
Dr. Laurence Plumey : First the egg is not so fat as that, there are only 12% fat, that is to say 12 grams of fat in two eggs since egg weighs 50 grams . Then, these lipids are mostly unsaturated fat, 70% are unsaturated fats divided between mono-unsaturated omega-9 that are good in preventing cardiovascular disease and omega 6 which are polyunsaturated fatty acids. The egg contains no or very little saturated fat and cholesterol that increases by no means contains the cholesterol diet.
Audience : The egg-cons it is indicated in cases of high cholesterol?
Dr. Laurence Plumey : When cholesterol is too high in blood, being brought by restricting cholesterol foods, this is certainly not the first action to take because we know that it has very little impact. Most people are asked to reduce saturated fat, be careful with butter, cold cuts, cheese, all snack foods, sauces, fried foods, anything containing animal fat instead. We identify the excess and we back to normal consumption and quite reasonable. We also ask these people to increase their consumption of Omega 9 (oleic acid) by eating a little more olive oil, using olive oil in cooking and can also increase their Omega 3 consumption thus increasing their consumption of rapeseed oil and fatty fish.
Then came last of all they will think to dietary cholesterol by asking “Do you eat lots of eggs?”. If it is yes, then he should eat a little less. Now if it is “I want to enjoy myself with an omelet once every 15 days,” there will be no problem in any case now we must remove the eggs to lower levels of bad cholesterol. There is also the phytosterols are impinging. Dietary cholesterol comes really as a last whereas previously they put him first! But now we know it’s very inefficient.
Audience : Eggs Does any other particular virtues?
Dr. Laurence Plumey : Absolutely and elsewhere in the field of nutrition and counseling for the patient, it advises people who are a little too thin, which might as seniors engage in the process of malnutrition, they recommends eating eggs. Egg protein is regarded as the reference protein by WHO as the best protein can be used in programs to fight against malnutrition.
The egg contains the same pigments that are extremely important for the quality of vision and who are the subject of prevention research is called AMD (macular degeneration related to age which is the leading cause of blindness seniors), maybe one day they will say that eating eggs will be a preventive measure and also ensuring the quality of vision when it comes to the end of his life.
It really is a universal food!
