• Introducing Eggs

    edited by Alexander Becker on October 11, 2006 | Link

    Being on the eternal quest for the perfect diet -- as if anything like that exists, in fact, I think it does exist, it's just a different perfect for you and me, I am constantly looking for improvement and new and old ideas to test on myself. After cooking and eating vegan for a year now with the introduction of some fish during recent weeks, I am researching to further diversify and optimize my current, personal diet.

    The question of when to eat is answered and the habit is established, once a day, at night, right after exercising. This eating schedule proves to be the most efficient and energizing so far. I am inclined to modify the vegan diet and shift its focus towards a more hunter-gatherer-oriented manner of eating.

    Removing most bread, potatoes, rice, and flour from the daily diet has the benefit of excluding many starches and is supposed to be healthier in regards to the storing of excessive energy as fat. Basically, without eating starches, you can eat more since you have to make up for the missing energy from the carbohydrates -- I am not recommending a fad diet though, just shifting the balance towards some foods and away from others.

    In order to maximize nutritional density and value I came across ... eggs. What a surprise, especially to the kind people who are eating eggs every other day and don't see anything special in my point. Yet, it somehow seems to be that eggs provide a very dense package of nutrients that are otherwise only available spread across multiple sources.

    Consider that --

    Chicken eggs supply a large amount of complete, high-quality protein (which contains all essential amino acids for humans), and provide significant amounts of several vitamins and minerals, including vitamin A, riboflavin, folic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, choline, iron, calcium, phosphorous and potassium.

    As opposed to other staple foods in the western cuisine, there are no obvious logical errors in eating eggs -- at least not from the hunter-gatherer perspective. While eggs are certainly animal food, they are no dairy product. The one problem is factory farming which surely negatively affects the quality of the eggs. Organic, free range eggs? A pragmatic approach: Find and eat as organic as possible.

    By gradually introducing eggs into my personal diet, I evaluate and ultimately decide whether they influence and enhance my levels of energy and overall health. If consuming eggs does not make a positive difference, I can make the informed and backed up decision to leave them off of my grocery list.

    Furthermore, it remains to be seen if eating eggs has any significant effects on my spiritual experience or even spiritual well-being since -- deliberate or not -- the exclusion of animal produce from man's food intake is, in many realities, a prerequisite for eventual enlightenment.

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