In praise of eggs... - But don't add salt or Marmite (it's very salty) if you are trying to lose weight.

They must be cracked . . . - Fay Weldon, writing in The Telegraph

Well worth reading the full article! - But if you are wanting to lose or to avoid gaining weight, don't sprinkle salt onto your delicious, nutritious egg! (You may like to try pepper instead...)

Extract:

"Nanny State can lie back and put her feet up. Others are doing her work for her. The Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre (BACC) has taken to acting like Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four by altering history in accordance with Big Mother's whim. It has just forbidden the Egg Information Service to re-run a batch of 40-year-old egg commercials starring Tony Hancock, great comedian of blessed memory.

No, says the BACC, no one may see these advertisements, which encouraged Britons to go to work on an egg, as they're too dangerous. The more eggs the audience eats, it argues, the less varied their diet will be. So the ads can't be seen to have happened at all. We must be protected from them.

Common sense tells us that eggs are good for us, being cheap, natural, wholesome, nutritious and additive-free; also that good parents are the ones who make sure their children have a proper breakfast, while the bad are the ones who let them go hungry to school.

Eggs got a bad press once, when they were accused of putting up cholesterol levels, but they were cleared of that: it turned out to be the ''good'' cholesterol, not the ''bad''. Now common sense is being turned on its head because the state's latest whim is ''a varied diet'', and the BACC trots obediently behind.

How exactly we are meant to vary our diet we are not told. Eat more of the sugar, salt and additive-enriched cereals advertised so plentifully on television? Persuade the children to choose a different kind of chocolate bar while running to school?"


Lose weight by eating less salt! - Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
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Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection
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