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
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Why Organic Store Eggs are a Scam
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Isn’t it amazing what people think is “healthy” food when really all they are eating is junk. I wish we could convince more people that it really does make a difference what we put into our bodies. Thanks for another enlightening post.
“Food for Fools” I personally like the title, sometimes you just have to forget being PFC and tell it like it is.
I think we Real Foodies tiptoe around people’s feelings way too much. Someone who eats Egg Beaters is most definitely a fool. You do have to tell it like it is – sometimes this is necessary to wake people from their zombie state of conformance.
Sarah,
You outdid yourself today!! I am posting on my website today. Awesome analogyw
YUM i just had some Eggs right from the Farm down the road….Fresh organic….I don’t think i’d ever think of eating an egg substitute…
My husband wanted egg beaters one time, I cooked them for him and he threw up afterwards. I never made them again.
Egg Beaters: Food for Fools – The Healthy Home Economist http://t.co/q6gtNvdc
Paul Hardiman corn flakes did that to rats? very interesting…and gross
Ew. Brad Pitt. Really? I’ve never found him attractive. Nevertheless… yes, it drives me crazy that my husband insists on these for breakfast (or rather, Better ‘n Eggs). For a while I had him convinced to at least eat real egg whites fresh from the farm (bad for him, but good for me- I got the extra yolks!), but he insists that real eggs upset his stomach. *sigh* At one point, he was eating about 6 eggs a day (3 at breakfast, 3 at night). He was looking better, feeling better, but… oops! His cholesterol was “a little high”. And then he told his doctor how many eggs he was eating. His doctor told him that 1-2 eggs per WEEK was plenty. Ugh. Well, at least his doctor is getting a bit of his own back- his wife’s gone vegan and she controls the kitchen. Muahahahahaha! He is NOT happy. 😀
Husband does have real farm fresh eggs about twice a week, so at least that’s something. And no, I can’t convince my husband with logic or facts. After all, he’s a DOCTOR (not my husband, my husband’s doctor).
Brad Pitt is pretty gross these days, but he sure is better than Charlie Sheen! Tiger blood and Adonis DNA? NOT!
Feed that poor rat on the right some real eggs!!!