If you were a rat, what would you want to look like – Rat Brad Pitt on the left or Rat Charlie Sheen on the right?
It seems pretty obvious that Brad Pitt Rat on the left is frisky, happy, and healthy in a normal, rat sort of way while Charlie Sheen Rat on the right looks rather worse for the wear and does not in any way possess “tiger blood” or “Adonis DNA”.
Hold on a minute. Â Charlie Sheen didn’t really say that, did he??
Oops, sorry. Back to the rats.
Guess what these little guys are eating?
Egg Beaters Better Than Real Eggs? Â Who Are They Kidding?
Brad Pitt Rat is eating eggs.
Charlie Sheen Rat is eating Egg Beaters.
How can this be?  Why, Egg Beaters is a masterpiece of food chemistry, after all!
Developed in the 1970s, Egg Beaters has the same protein, fat, calories, macrominerals, and vitamins as Real Eggs!
Marketed as a “healthy” substitute for eggs, Egg Beaters is routinely served to nursing home residents and is a typical breakfast choice of older Americans seeking to limit cholesterol and saturated fat.
What Happens to Rats Eating Egg Beaters
The problem is when you take out the saturated fat and cholesterol from eggs and substitute vegetable oil, dried nonfat milk, additives, chemicals, and synthetic vitamins and feed it to adolescent rats what do you get?
You get little Charlie Sheen rats that look like the pathetic creature in the picture above. Â These Egg Beater rats do not develop properly and have mangy looking fur. They also develop diarrhea within one week of eating Egg Beaters and die within 3-4 weeks.
What Happens to Rats Eating Real Eggs
The Brad Pitt Rats eating eggs? Â They go on to develop properly and live out normal little rat lives.
Are you or a relative eating Egg Beaters thinking it is a better choice for your health?  Set the marketing mumbo jumbo and misleading doctor-speak about saturated fat and cholesterol aside for a minute and just look at the picture!  Make the call with simple common sense.
Doesn’t it seem downright foolish to eat Egg Beaters if that stuff can make a young rat look like that within one week?
Perhaps it might help you to know that a thorough review of the world’s scientific literature published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine in 2009 concluded that eggs do not in any way, shape or form contribute to heart attacks!
You don’t have to tell that to Charlie Sheen rat. From the looks of him, he would much rather be eating eggs instead of Egg Beaters so that he can get his Brad Pitt on.
References
Eggs Do Not Cause Heart Attacks
Morning Nourishment: Bountiful Benefits and Creative Ideas
More InformationÂ
Five Fats You Must Have in Your Kitchen
Why Organic Store Eggs are a Scam
What Oxidizes the Cholesterol in Eggs
Are Raw Egg Whites Healthy?
Duck Eggs: More Nutritious and Less Allergenic
Egg Beaters: Food for Fools – The Healthy Home Economist http://t.co/BrY17OqP
SOOOO sharing this some time today!
there is something to be said for service to others…with humility. i know that humility is not en vogue anymore…it’s a pity…it is a virtue.
We get our eggs local and organic 😀 No worries here
My Mom-in-Law eats egg beaters every day (she cooks it in the microwave). Any ideas on how I can share this information with her? We’re pretty close, but I don’t want her to feel like I’m indoctrinating her or make her feel bad, either.
Honestly, never tried it, but it sounds disgusting. My main rule when it comes to food is: always eat the real thing. Really thats all you need to know for good health and real food.
Thank you for this! My father in law is full-on into the whole cholesterol myth and will not every listen to me. He eats egg beaters every day, then asks me how to help his bowel problems (and chronic muscle problems…resulting, most likely, from the statins he’s been on since he was 30 years old!!!) I wish he would read this, but prayerfully others will, at least!
Print this article out and show it to him? Or another similar article without “fool” in the title….
I heard, but don’t know for sure, that the rise in Alzheimer’s is related to the rise in use of statin drugs…..maybe someone here knows for sure if there is a link…
Food does not come from vats. http://t.co/ac6vN0fd #thingsthatmakemesick
A person is foolish though if they fall for something without first examining it. Different personalities express things differently. I wold say Sarah is a prophet type person who says it how it is, not worrying about feelings, but making it clear. A servant type person may be more sensitive to people’s feelings, but the message may then be watered down….
What a difference….WOW!
I am glad I work in a place that allows me to fact check and find original work, like the study this article was based on. I don’t take internet articles at face value. That said, I read the study in Pediatrics Journal and as a result, while I never touch Egg Beaters, I will make sure no one else I know does either. Honestly, does the food industry care about anything more than profit? I know there are individual companies trying to make a difference, but how can they when they go up against the giants with deep pockets full of lobbyists. I am disgusted, confused and saddened by what I see offered up as food for the masses.