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
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So if real eggs are good for you what about the cholesterol in them? Is that just a food myth or is it a fact? An if it is a fact, doesn’t cholesterol plug your arteries up and cause problems with the blood flow to your heart and brain? Not trying to cause a problem but would really like to know. My heart Doctor of 25 years is one of the leading ones in his field and he plainly states that if you eat eggs regularly, 4 or 5 days a week, your heart is going to plug up and you are going to die or lose blood flow to your brain and have a stroke. So who’s telling the truth? Makes you sorta wonder doesn’t it. Maybe they taste bad, but egg whites and vitimans cannot be bad for you, unless eggs themselves are bad for you, who telling the truth? A good question.
processed foods and white refined sugars are the main culprits. they cause inflammation of the arteries which causes damage so your body produces cholesterol to repair that damage in your blood vessels… but what do i know as i am not a doctor… low fat, no fat, chemshit, and GMOs are banned in my house
Who conducted the rat study, and when, and why isn’t it cited?
Without some kind of a citation, it’s hard for me to take this seriously instead of as propaganda.
This article claims that Egg Beaters and real eggs have identical calorie counts…not true according to Live Strong web site: A single serving (1/4 cup) of original Egg Beaters contains 30 calories, compared to the 70 calories in a single large egg…making Egg Beaters a healthier alternative for the weight-conscious.” Well that’s obvious from the picture!!! LOL
@Heidi I know what you mean. It really is hard to imagine the rat looking THAT bad from Egg Beaters!!
Oh ok nevermind. Somehow I thought it was fat free in which case I *might* have been right. That’s pretty nasty news thanks for sharing 🙂
@Heidi not true. Egg Beaters has fat in it … processed vegetable oils which is exactly what most Americans go for trying to avoid saturated fat like what is in the egg yolk. This experiment was not biased at all.
Egg beaters always creeped me out – frankenfood – Blech!