one thing that makes me shake my head is when I see people cracking the eggs open and screening the egg whites into a bowl and throwing out the egg yolks because they think egg yolks are terrible for you - because of the fat & cholesterol, when I see people do this I know they are confused, the egg yolk is where all the nutrition is. Somehow people have gotten it into their brains that egg yolks are bad when in fact it is the healthiest part of the egg.
By throwing out the yolk and only eating egg whites, you're throwing out the most nutrient dense, antioxidant-rich, vitamin and mineral loaded portion of the egg. The yolks contain many B-vitamins, trace minerals, vitamin A, folate, choline, lutein, and other powerful nutrients, do some research on this on your own because I'm sure I haven't even scratched the surface of what the yolks contain.
Egg whites are almost devoid of nutrition compared to the yolk.
Truth be known, the protein in egg whites isn't as powerful without the yolks to balance out the amino acid profile and make the protein more bio-available.
Yolks contain more than 90% of the calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, thiamin, B6, folate, and B12, and panthothenic acid of the egg. In addition, the yolks contain all the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K in the egg, as well as all the essential fatty acids.
People think egg yolks they think high cholesterol and that their cholesterol will go up if they eat whole eggs. Which is false.
Truth be know, when you eat a food that contains a high amount of dietary cholesterol such as eggs, your body cuts it's internal production of cholesterol to balance things out. And yes your body does produce cholesterol all by itself, cholesterol isn't just something that's acquired through your diet.
If you don't eat enough cholesterol, your body will produce more since cholesterol has tons of important functions in the body.
I have even read that recent studies show that eating whole eggs actually raises your good HDL cholesterol to a higher degree than LDL cholesterol, thereby improving your overall cholesterol ratio and blood chemistry.
Plus another thing people have to learn is that high cholesterol isn't a disease, Heart disease is a disease. There are so many myths about cholesterol it's not even funny. If someone is interested I'll post that info about cholesterol - it's actually very interesting.
Eggs aren't an evil food (however don't buy those egg alternative products at the store like egg beaters or something like that, they're crap, egg whites & chemicals, not even close to being as healthy for you as a whole egg.)
Whole eggs are very much superior to egg whites.
You can even take this further by comparing mass farming produced eggs (your supermarket standard which everyone buys) to organic free range eggs from healthy chickens. Organic free range eggs are the ultimate best eggs you can buy. They contain even higher nutrition than normal eggs you purchase at the supermarket.
If you want to add weight to your body,
consume protein to help you increase your lean muscle mass. You can consume more carbohydrates but take into account the primary role of carbs is to provide energy for the body, you ingest too many carbs and don't burn them all, the body will simple store them as body fat and that isn't the type of weight you want to increase. That's another thing I could spend so much time talking about, what makes you fat.
Carbs make you fat, I guess if you ingested enough fat it would make you fat but more than likely if you're overweight it's because you've been consuming far too many carbs and not enough protein & healthy fats. And most important, stay away from white flour, white bread, white sugar, etc. - all pure carbs that will turn into pure body fat on you and again that isn't the type of weight you want to put on.
