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Nature’s Natural Food. Is It All It’s Cracked Up To Be? by Page Remick © Page Remick – All Rights reserved
How can all this fit inside an egg?
The protein in egg is the highest quality found in food, containing all nine amino acids essential to healthy bodies. Egg whites contain the purest protein found in any whole foods: scientists use it as the standard to measure all other proteins. The cholesterol in eggs makes hormones and protects and lubricates cell membranes and muscles. Reuters reported on a six-week study of 49 adults consuming two eggs a day. The eggs did not adversely affect their cholesterol levels: so stop worrying about cholesterol from eggs! With only 70 calories the egg is a powerhouse of protein - one of Mother Nature’s most nutrient dense, natural foods. No wonder it takes a hen 25 hours to produce this marvel! “What’s So Natural About This?” Let’s see how man decided to improve upon the egg. For the last 30 years, egg farming took on gigantic, manufacturing proportions. Hens were fed ‘optimized diets’ of hormone and antibiotic cocktails along with animal by-products (a cheap feed), and whatever grain mixture man thought best. The hormones meant to produce super chickens, ended up in the eggs and added to our hormone imbalances. The antibiotics were needed to treat the cooped up, ill chickens. Where do you think the antibiotics ended up? To control thousands of hens, they were kept in giant facilities of wall-to-wall, floor to ceiling cages. Water and food was delivered by conveyor belt and chemical washes and antiseptics oversaw sanitation. Seeing that these unnatural practices were raising eyebrows, manufacturers turned to a barrage of politically correct wording on their egg cartons: free-range, free roaming, cage-free, antibiotic-free, hormone free and grain fed. “Quick! Run For Your Lives!” Be careful with the wording on egg cartons. Cage-free, free-range and free roaming can mean that a warehouse full of thousands of chickens has the door opened for five minutes each day. Very few ever get outside, but they are ‘free’ to shuffle around with the thousands of other chickens in the room! And the healthy grain diet: how much of it is from genetically modified corn, soy and other grains? “Don’t Fix It If It Ain’t Broken” Some articles say there is no difference in mass-produced eggs and organic eggs from freely, foraging chickens. But somehow, when I crack a thick-shelled organic egg and see the firm white and bright orange yolk, versus the thin shelled, runny white and pale yellow yolks from giant egg producers, there is no comparison. For hundreds of years, people have eaten eggs from chickens that scratched the earth, ate bugs, grubs and grain right from the farms that they lived on. Everyday, the hens were exposed to sunshine, fresh air, foraging, exercise, rain, clean water, and stress-free lives: just like the hens on an Amish farm where I get my eggs. The Amish egg carton says it all, ‘One dozen eggs.’ They keep it simple. Instead of man straining to improve something that is already incredibly perfect, I say, “Don’t fix it if it ain’t broken." Want To Be Healthy But Don’t Have The Time?
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