As sure as you have imagined when reading the title, this post goes about my favorite food: eggs.
Ever since I was conscious of memory, we have had fried eggs in my house. Not every day, but most. Maybe that's why I like them so much. However, despite eating eggs frequently, I have also grown up listening to my mother repeat over and over again that "eating many eggs is bad". He told me when I was a little boy and I asked him to prepare me two eggs, like my father, and he also told me when he was older, every time he ate eggs for several consecutive days.
The fact that eating eggs daily is detrimental to health comes from the fact that these are high in cholesterol - about 200 mg per unit -, and consequently it is believed that frequent consumption raises cholesterol in the blood, which in turn increases The risk of heart attack. Therefore, health organizations recommend not to exceed 300 mg daily cholesterol, or what is the same, not to eat more than one egg a day (although there are those who limit it to five or even three).
I, who am a good son, always behaved well and controlled my consumption of eggs. After all, everyone knows that eating too many eggs is dangerous, right? However, my opinion about it changed when I went to live in Buenos Aires. In fact, if I had discovered all this before, I would have told my mother, "Mom, do not touch the eggs of my food!"
There are many beliefs that we accept as true only because we have been listening to them since we were little. They have no logical or rational basis, they are just things that "everybody knows" and that condition our decisions without realizing it. In fact, they are often so deeply embedded in our culture that we never raise the possibility that they may not be true.
Here are several examples, but surely you can think of many more:
• Eating more than five eggs a week is bad
• To get a good job you need to go to college
• Buying a home is a good investment
• Rent is to throw money
• Entrepreneurs are always trying to take advantage of their employees
Some of these beliefs, like eggs, do not affect us beyond what we eat every night. However, others, such as those related to the purchase and rental of housing, have ruined many people's lives.
In Vivir al Máximo I try to encourage you to deactivate the autopilot and live intentionally. That is to say that you do things for a reason, and not only because everyone does them or because your grandmother told you as a child. I want you to question your deepest beliefs and decide for yourself what is true and what is a lie. The problem is that sometimes this is not so simple.
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