Is an egg a chicken’s period?
Where did this come from now? At a drinks party a few weeks ago, someone said very confidently: ‘And I don’t eat eggs anymore either, because they’re obviously a chicken’s period.’ Once and for all: This. Is. Nonsense.
A few years ago, it was all the rage: Green Happiness. Two dietitians wrote the book Green Happiness about what healthy eating is and how it can make you very happy, beautiful and slim on top of that. What was the secret? Mainly lots of vegetables and fruit, no dairy and never a frikandel. And what was absolutely forbidden: eggs. On RTL Late Night, the ladies said that eggs are made in a chicken’s uterus and then shed, just like menstruation. Ouch, that’s not a pleasant image for someone with a vivid imagination.
But how does it work, then?
But fortunately, it isn’t true at all. To begin with: chickens don’t have a uterus. And without a uterus, there’s no menstruation. And of course there’s nothing wrong with a boiled egg, a fried egg or scrambled eggs. According to nutrition expert Martijn Katan, three eggs a week are perfectly healthy. Secondly: what the ladies wrote had no scientific basis, but was based on their feelings, on what they supposedly already knew deep down, as they said in an interview with NRC.
Total rubbish
Arjan Lubach looked into it. He lumped the ladies’ stories together with the paleo diet, the food hourglass and Rens Kroes’s thought experiments. He called it pure rubbish—in other words, total nonsense.
So, is that clear now? No, chickens do not menstruate, and healthy eating means not eating too much and, above all, eating a varied diet. With the occasional egg.
