Effects of hormones on eggs

Three Yolk Egg

Have you ever cracked open a 3-yolk egg?

Sounds like a bonus, doesn’t it? Three yolks for the price of one!

Writing in his monthly newsletter, William Campbell Douglass, M.D., explains that about one in 100 eggs will contain two yolks. But it may also be a sign that the flock that produced the egg was treated with hormones. “And a three-yolker?” asks Dr. Douglass: “Guaranteed to be a hormone-enhanced freak.”

Recalling his days on his family’s farm, Dr. Douglass notes that there’s more than just a size difference between the smaller eggs you might get from a local chicken farmer and the much larger eggs you’ll find on most grocery store shelves.

He shares an amusing conversation he once had with an Arkansas chicken farmer who told him “with a twinkle in her eye” that those smaller eggs are from chickens who “ain’t never been to the city, and most of them city chickens ain’t never seen a rooster, which means they ain’t fertilized, which ain’t normal.”

Dr. Douglass says, “It was a little scientific for me, but I got the message.”

Eggs provide great nutrition, especially if we avoid mass produced eggs from chickens hopped up on hormones. You can read Dr. Douglass’ entire “Featured Article,” as well as a companion piece titled “Still scared of eggs?” at www.realhealthnews.com.

To Your Good Health,

Jenny Thompson

Health Sciences Institute