The answer is yes. I highly recommend leaving in the yokes when preparing eggs. A lot of hype has been directed at eating egg whites and not consuming egg yolks, especially in the bodybuilding and elite fitness community. However, most of the egg's nutritional value comes from the yolk. As you can see from the following chart, the essential vitamins and nutrients that yokes provide are far greater than that of the egg whites.
Eggs are high in cholesterol but cholesterol does not cause heart disease like most people think. In my personal opinion and according to several studies heart disease is caused by deficient diets and an inactive lifestyle. A study by the University of Connecticut found that healthy adults who ate three eggs a day for one month did not experience an increase in their LDL to HDL(good cholesterol) ratio or to their total HDL ratio. Another study published in the Journal of Nutrition found that overweight men who eat eggs while on a carbohydrate restricted diet have a significant increase in their good HDL cholesterol levels compared to men who don't eat eggs.
So when you're cooking breakfast tomorrow don't waste your time seperating the yolks from the whites like you usually do, just eat the whole egg. The evidence is there, egg yolks are healthy and packed full of nutrients.
Sources:
No comments:
Post a Comment