One egg a day is enough

After read the food journal post on the blog by my classmates, I found that some of them are like to eat eggs at breakfast. Then, I was wondering, how many eggs should we eat per day? If we eat too much, then, do we will get into trouble? If so, what kind of trouble we will meet?

As we knew, egg is a very nutritive and very popular food. The eggs I mentioned in this essay are chicken eggs. Most Americans like to eat eggs at breakfast. Omelet is one of the most popular foods made of egg. Of course, poached eggs are also popular. Every morning, when I have breakfast in dining hall, I found that almost everyone will order an omelet or two or three poached eggs. People like eggs because of the taste and the nutrition. For remain our health, to know the nutritional content of foods is really helpful. So, what’s really in an egg? Do they really that nutritive as we expect?

Chicken eggs contain all essential amino acids humans that human need, and also supply vitamins and minerals. These include vitamin A, vitamin B₂, vitamin B₉, vitamin B₆, vitamin B₁₂, choline, iron, calcium, phosphorus and potassium. And, eggs can provide protein. An egg always with high cholesterol and it is an essential material for life. It seems eggs are very good for our health, should we eat much as we can? Of course not, everything have a limit, even it is good. The most things that we should care about is the essential molecular of life – cholesterol. Because, take too much cholesterol will have some bad influences to our health. And, one of the theories is cholesterol can increasing risk in heart disease. I believe no body like to get heart disease by eat too many eggs.  So, what should we do? Stop eating eggs? No longer eat eggs anymore? No, we don’t need do that. According to P.J.H. Jones article, 7 eggs per week is good for our health, 7 eggs per week is enough. Thus, if a person who like to eat egg every day, one egg per day is enough. If we eat eggs more than 7 a week, we may get into a health trouble. But is not necessary, all of us are different, maybe someone can eat more than others. 7 is just for a general situation.

All in all, egg is really good for our body healthy, as long as you not eat too much. Moderate eating eggs can supplement many essential molecules for our body, such as some vitamin, and protein. But, just not eat too much, “moderate” is very important.   One egg a day is enough for us.

Work Citied

"Food and Agriculture Organization article on eggs". Fao.org. Retrieved 2010-01-10.

Vitamin A, RAE Content of Selected Foods per Common Measure, sorted by nutrient content. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). 2005. p. 4

P. J. H. Jones Dietary cholesterol and the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients: a review of the Harvard Egg Study and other data International Journal of Clinical Practice 63
Article first published online: 14 SEP 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2009.02136.x
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