Omelet > wrote:
>In article >,
> Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>
>> Gregory Morrow > wrote:
>> >> > Eggs are high in Iron??? :-(
>> >>
>> >> Yes, they are.
>> >
>> >One of the reasons why eggs are called "the perfect food"...
>>
>> Whoever called them that ignored their near total lack
>> of carbohydrates. Must've been that Atkins hack.
>
>There is no such thing as an "essential carbohydrate".

Your brain runs on complex carbohydrates. Cut down your
intake of them and you'll go stupid and sleepy.

And if you don't have them your liver puts you into a
state where you lose weight, both muscle and fat. It's
an illness, not a diet.

>There are, however, essential amino acids, essential fatty acids and
>essential vitamins and trace minerals that the body cannot create.
>
>An egg is a very complete food.
>
>Might have to do with the fact that it's an incubator for creating a
>living animal, so it HAS to be.

A living chicken. So it might be complete, for a chicken.
If the chicken was an embryo. Which has very different
nutritional needs from an adult human.

--Blair