Eggs and liver problems

[theplastickid]

Hello my mother keeps on telling me to stop eating eggs, i have started to eat about 3 egg whites a day and she tells me I will get yellow gordis (dont know if that is spelt right) and become egg bound.

Anyone know anything about this please reply.

THanks!

[CrackAddictX03]

3 egg whites. HAHAHA.
I eat 24 sometimes in one day.
Your mom is wrong, nothing bad will happen to you. 3 egg whites is nothing for your mom to be worried about. 3 egg whites is nothing in itself.

[theplastickid]

my mum went on an egg diet once and got it.... said she ate only eggs and drunk grapefruit. She got yellow... what ever its called and was ill for six months.

[theplastickid]

Any one else got any opinions on this?

[melon]

my mum went on an egg diet once and got it.... said she ate only eggs and drunk grapefruit. She got yellow... what ever its called and was ill for six months.

I doubt this was caused by eating eggs. It was probably caused by eating ONLY eggs. It's like eating 3kg of peanut butter and getting fat and then claiming that all peanut butter makes you fat. Moderation is the key.

Why on earth would you only eat eggs??

[Old Man Big]

3 egg whites are harmless. i usually buy the carton of pasterized whites and eat them all in one sitting sometimes(16 whites) and im not yellow yet.

[CrackAddictX03]

if you eat nothing but egg whites in a day, of coarse you are gonna get sick. "Too much of a good thing isnt always a good thing" applies to this situation.

In a diet of any kind, balanced nutrition is key.
If you have too many carbs and little or NO protein - you will gradually lose muscle (from MY own experience)
If you have NO carbs, eat all protein - you will go into ketosis.

just sticking to 40/40/20 or 35/45/20, or whatever it is, it needs to be balanced if maintaining a healthy body is one of your priorities.

[psycho66]

3 eggwhits a day isnt going to do anything.....your mom is wrong !

[theplastickid]

ok thank you guys, i have a super high protein intake but i also eat tons of carbs so its all good.

[Mcoguy]

I'm no doctor....................but I have never heard of anything called yellow gordis.....

[secondsight]

Egg whites are great especially if your a BBer. I would also use at least 1 whole egg with your 3 egg whites. I do.

[theplastickid]

in the US i have seen you can buy egg whites in a tub over in the uk we have to make normal eggs and take the shell off and the damn yolk out its like a surgical opperation lol

[rockstarsar]

if you eat nothing but egg whites in a day, of coarse you are gonna get sick. "Too much of a good thing isnt always a good thing" applies to this situation.

In a diet of any kind, balanced nutrition is key.
If you have too many carbs and little or NO protein - you will gradually lose muscle (from MY own experience)
If you have NO carbs, eat all protein - you will go into ketosis.

just sticking to 40/40/20 or 35/45/20, or whatever it is, it needs to be balanced if maintaining a healthy body is one of your priorities.

Yes, if anything, her illness was caused by the unbalanced crash diet severely lacking in nutrients. And there is no such thing as yellow gordis. I looked up other search terms and could find nothing on Google about turning yellow from any egg related disease.

[melon]

I'm no doctor....................but I have never heard of anything called yellow gordis.....

Does he mean jaundice perhaps?

Causes of jaundice: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/j/jaundice/causes.htm

I don't see egg whites listed there.

[theplastickid]

yeh thats it i just couldn't spell it lol

[Mcoguy]

gordis vs jaundice.......hmmmmmmmm........sure. And janudice of the yellow type.........man, that's scary. I'd look out for those eggs.

[atticus_a]

I am allergy to eggs. They do very bad things to me. I didn't get no yellow what ever.

[melon]

gordis vs jaundice.......hmmmmmmmm........sure. And janudice of the yellow type.........man, that's scary. I'd look out for those eggs.

Jaundice is 'the yellow type', becuase it makes you go yellow!

[Mcoguy]

Really melon? I did not know that.....::note extreme level of sarcasm::

Would you please enlighten me more regarding this phenomenal disease.......perhaps, oh, I dunno, explain obstructive vs. hemolytic? Or perhaps the serum levels of different markers such as Alk phos and conjugated vs. unconjugated bilirubin?

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[melon]

Really melon? I did not know that.....::note extreme level of sarcasm::

Would you please enlighten me more regarding this phenomenal disease.......perhaps, oh, I dunno, explain obstructive vs. hemolytic? Or perhaps the serum levels of different markers such as Alk phos and conjugated vs. unconjugated bilirubin?

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Sorry man, didn't pick up your sarcasm in your original post. My bad. And yeah, point proven I have no idea what any of that stuff means.