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Good Food – Good Health. If you want to lose weight, then go to work on two eggs.
It now appears that the old adage or advert ‘Go to work on an egg’ could have been correct after all. In this day and age it really is hard to know what being good with food really means as the ‘powers that know’ give us conflicting evidence time and time again. I call this the ‘Good food goes bad comes good again’ syndrome! Scientists have said that tests have shown that people that start their day with either scrambled, poached or boiled eggs (not fried) can lose up to two thirds more weight than those who chose a different breakfast. So they say forget about counting the calories and diets where you have to cut out carbohydrates and other foods to lose weight, the key could simply be just to have two eggs for breakfast. Apparently the secret behind the egg’s success is that it has the ability to make the body feel fuller for longer than many other foods. I myself find this is true, as I love scrambled egg on toast at the weekend, when often I go beyond lunchtime before feeling hungry again. Weekdays I just usually grab a bowl of cereal for quickness and my tummy is usually growling come 10.30. I do believe we are all more aware of eating healthily, but the time factor is upon all of us. We live in an age of working further from home and with an abundance of fast food outlets giving quick cheap breakfasts that are convenient, but not so healthy. Even some of the calorific values and sugar contents on the ever popular ‘breakfast bars’ are amazing. The tests were carried out by researchers in the U.S. who looked at the eating habits of a group of women that were over weight and obese for their study. The women who were already following a low-fat diet were then asked to eat either two eggs or a bagel for breakfast. These two meals contained exactly the same calorific number and in weight are roughly the same. However, after just eight weeks the results were quite astonishing, the slimmers who had eaten the eggs for breakfast had easily lost the most weight, 65% more. Not only 65 per cent more pounds than the bagel breakfast eaters, they also lost nearly twice as many inches from their waistline. The researchers say that the egg breakfast eaters ate and needed less during the day, although they can’t say why eggs are so good at making us feel full one thought is that their high protein content could be the answer. So this is great news for all of us, showing that despite having an equal energy content and weight, an egg breakfast has a greater satiating effect compared to a bagel breakfast, which translated into a lower energy intake at lunch, can’t be bad, even if we don’t have excess weight to lose and just want to maintain a healthy balance. I believe that eggs have had a bad press recently, having suffered food scares during the last two decades, thought by some to be from the high concentrate of battery farming. However sales have increased greatly again, being in part due to the ever- popular Atkins Diet. The advice given in Britain by the Food Standards Agency is that “eggs are a good choice as part of a healthy, balanced diet, it is important to eat as great a variety of foods as possible” Another good reason for eating eggs for breakfast is that in the study they also found that the decrease in energy consumption lasted 24 hours after eating them. So now we know that taking five minutes longer preparing breakfast, will help me to stop the need for the quick fix from the vending machine. So like us make time for a healthy breakfast and reap the benefits, go on give it a go. Sandra and Ted Wosko |
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