I recently had a discussion with my wife about how healthy eggs are. We both agreed that they’re good for you – go eat some eggs – but my wife insisted that all the good stuff in them was in the yolk. As a kid, I remembered the recommendations being that you avoid the yolk and eat more of the whites. Then that changed, flipped actually, to the exact opposite, and now we’re to the point that it’s recommended that you just eat the whole thing. I don’t tell you this to start a debate about eggs, but a discussion about food and health, because everything has pretty much changed over the course of my life and then back again, but now it seems to make some sense.

The reason people were told to avoid egg yolks was cholesterol – the yolks have quite a bit of it, the white have none of it. And we were told cholesterol was bad for you, would kill you, in fact. Then came the idea that the cholesterol you eat doesn’t have all that much to do with the cholesterol in your blood…etc. 

In other words, things changed. Not just a little, but completely. 

This isn’t the only thing that has changed, to one degree or another pretty much everything has changed over time. Don’t eat butter, it’s bad for you – eat margarine because reasons. Sugar is bad, eat these chemicals blended together to taste like sugar, that’s........

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