Jon, < (I've read that if people could just "get over" all of the publicity about eggs having high cholesterol levels, they would realize that eggs are a profoundly cheap source of good, healthy protein).>
True, but eggs are mostly a very poor representation of the real thing, which is produced by a hen which digs around under leaves, eating insects, worms, leaves and dirt, with sunshine and rain.
Such eggs are delicious, good looking, with golden yolks, hold together, have tough shells and I presume much more calcium, vitamins and minerals and maybe other stuff we need for zinging good health and happiness.
Nevertheless, even supermarket eggs are a really good deal with more nutrient bang for your buck than anything else I can think of right now.
The cholesterol stuff is all nonsense. My theory is that it is nutrient deficits and cooked fats which are harmful. Cooked fats are cracked, oxidized and polymerized, ready to cause cancer and heart disease. It's the frying pan which kills, not the egg, which if boiled or otherwise cooked at low temperatures, will not do any harm.
Fried bacon is a nutrient nightmare and guaranteed to kill all but the toughest and luckiest [or more accurately, those unlucky enough to die from something else before the nutrient deficits, nitrites and fatty polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons get them.] Same as cigarettes.
I bet the deflation measures [or disinflation] don't allow for the decline in quality of our food from the good old days, though they allow for the increase in quality of our computers and cars.
Mqurice
Edit...speak of the devil. Food price deflation siliconinvestor.com
<WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prices paid to U.S. producers fell in April as a sharp drop in food costs more than offset rising energy prices, the government said on Friday in a report that showed wholesale prices well-contained.
The Producer Price Index, a closely watched wholesale inflation gauge, fell 0.2 percent last month after a 1.0 percent surge in March, the Labor Department said.
Stripping out volatile food and energy prices, the so-called core PPI rose 0.1 percent in April, matching the increase posted a month earlier.... > |
