Eggs and Diabetes

Eggs have a negative effect on the body's ability to metabolize glucose. My blood sugar readings surged right after Easter (the massive egg holiday!) and stayed there during my travel in Arizona. In Arizona, the motels had free breakfasts and eggs were the only thing I could eat on my low glycemic index diet. Nothing I was trying reduced my readings. On Wednesday Patricia found this study, which suggests that 6 eggs a week is the limit. Any more egg consumption will significantly increase your risk for diabetes (77% in the women that were being studied). Apparently it is the cholesterol in the yolks that causes the problem. On Thursday I stopped eating all eggs and today my blood sugar reading was 127... whew! I have another 10 points to shed in the readings, but you can be sure that I won't be eating many eggs from now on. My guess is that I was averaging more than 12 eggs a week before I stopped. Eggs are one of the few pleasures in my diet these days. sigh...