Wes Peterson wrote:
>
> Carol (or is it Reggie?),

It's both.  As I mentioned earlier, I often use "Reggie", a nickname
of mine, when I'm on the net, because it isn't clear from the name
whether I'm a man or a woman, and I enjoy the ambiguity. :D  I still
have it as Reggie in my identity settings, I realize.  Perhaps I
should change that before I write to the list.  Does it bother
anyone to see it up there?

> I said:
> > > By the way, it's really not a good idea to eat only the white
> > > or only the yolk... That would be tantamount to consuming a
> > > fragmented food...
>
> You said:
> > While I'm usually in agreement with you, Wes, I have to question
> > this notion.  I mean, where do you draw the line?  Do you eat
> > banana peels, avocado pits, and nut shells?  I'm not trying to
> > be snotty here.  I'm honestly trying to get to the rule of thumb
> > about this thing.
>
> Well, obviously the absolutely truly whole food (eggs) would include the
> shell. Same with bananas (peel), nuts (shell), etc.. So if we were
> really going to eat "whole eggs", we would eat the shell along with the
> white & yolk.
>
> Reality: The edible food inside the shell consists of the white and the
> yolk, not just the yolk, or just the white. Whole eggs are referred to
> as white and yolk.

But one could also say that the edible food inside the white
consists of the yolk and the germ, or the edible food inside the
hen consists of the meats and the eggs.  One can look at it all
sorts of ways.  Are we to base our dietary decisions upon naming
conventions?

It seems to me that fragmentation is more the rule than the
exception anyway, so why do folks fret about it?  It certainly
isn't unnatural; animals do it in the wild all the time.

> Question: Why do you think it's good to consume only the yolk? There is
> no good reason to consume only the white or only the yolk;

To eat something that isn't yummy just makes no sense to me.  Now,
I'm not saying that just because I think egg white is tasteless and
revolting, everyone else should too.  Maybe some folks like its
taste.  But I'm not going to deprive myself of egg yolk, which I
find deeelicious, just because of fear of the vague evils of
fragmentation.

> the body uses them in synergistic fashion in assimilation.

Please elaborate.

:)
Carol