When I read the marketing slogans used to advertise eggs with terms like free-range, cage free, and organic I still am not confident I’m actually getting a quality egg. Pasture raised is where it’s at and what I want. Although, the egg is rather resilient from absorbing toxins from its mother hen, still it’s important that hen ate her natural diet to nourish her eggs. Chickens eat grass, grubs, slugs, and other insects. They don’t eat “chicken feed.”

Nutrition? Lets talk macros. Egg contains your protein and healthy fats including omega 3. This easily obtainable, underutilized source of protein is packed with everything your muscles want and need. Perfect for a snack or post workout feast as pictured below.

We’ve all heard the bad rep the egg has.  The egg has been blamed in the American health food industry for a lifetime as raising bad blood-cholesterol and leading to heart disease. I call BS, and so did scientists. The real culprit is man made vegetable oils, transfats, and sugar. Especially refined sugar. View the new Scientific report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee from the USDA here and read for yourself. It states, under the bold headline:

Cholesterol. Previously, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended that cholesterol intake be limited to no more than 300 mg/day. The 2015 DGAC will not bring forward this recommendation because available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between consumption of dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol, consistent with the conclusions of the AHA/ACC report.^{2 35}Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.

Foods containing cholesterol and the serum cholesterol in our bodies are two separate materials and they should have different names.  The rise in Cardiac Vascular Disease has caused fear of consuming cholesterol containing foods when in reality your body actually needs cholesterol to be fully nourished. Including, to make testosterone. So… Let the gains begin. Crack some shells!!