Hi, welcome to the exam room. I'm Dr. Neal Barnard and I'm delighted to have you with us today.

Today we are going to talk about one of the biggest nutrition myths that we have. And that is eggs for health.

For many many years people have been eating eggs for breakfast, you cannot go into a restaurant for breakfast without it being central to the menu.

Doctors and scientists have been concerned about eggs. They've got cholesterol. They've got more cholesterol than any other food. There is as much cholesterol or more in a single egg than there is in an eight ounce stake.

And in 2015 all of this blew up because the egg industry had been doing studies to try to assert that the cholesterol you eat doesn't matter.

Yeah, you're eating it but it won't get into your blood. That's what they said and a lot of people believe that.

In fact, today you'll hear people say, I heard eggs are okay, aren't they? Well, they're not okay.

And today we're going to tackle that and this is going to be a really exciting program. We're going to look at eggs, what they do, which diseases they fuel.

But also, if you're a little bit concerned, what do you mean instead? So join weight loss champion Chuck Carroll.

Is he learned how to replace a dozen eggs with a dozen easy and healthy plant based substitutes? It's going to be a fun show today. Thanks for listening.

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It's a breakfast staple, but should we be eating that? That's the question I pose to register dietitian and friend of the show Maggie Neal. Welcome back Maggie. Thank you.

You grew up in a house. Did you grow up vegan? No, I did not. I ate plenty of eggs.

Okay, so this is this is gear. You're just like everyone else. You're like me. I mean, they were a breakfast staple on the weekends. It was scrambled eggs.

Matter of fact, my mom will tell a story of me dragging a stool up to the stove when I'm like four or five and cooking my own eggs.

Because, and I love you mom, she just couldn't cook like bottom line. I mean, these these eggs were just super dry and turns out I really shouldn't have been eating them anyway.

But you know, I was cooking my own long story short breakfast staple. But should they be Maggie? Should they be?

You know, they I just wanted to go back and talk about that memory for a quick second. Yeah.

So I remember trying to learn how to make my own eggs and then you know, it was really important. Every chef needs to know how to make eggs whether it's scrambled or hard boiled, fried whatever it is.

And that was like, if you know how to make your eggs, you're solid. Right.

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