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By JACKIE SILVER

Tribune correspondent

Published: October 24, 2009

America's egg farmers and the American Egg Board created The Good Egg Project to educate the public about where eggs come from and encourage people to pledge to "Eat Good. Do Good Everyday." For every pledge taken on www.goodeggproject.org, America's egg farmers will donate one egg to Feeding America, the nation's largest hunger relief charity, up to one million eggs. That's in addition to 12 million eggs donated annually.

Besides the many nutritious components of the egg that we're already familiar with (high protein, low fat) there's a fatty acid in egg yolk that appears to help the aging brain stay healthy. Arachidonic acid (ARA) is a type of omega-6 fatty acid that helps maintain brain neuron function.

Impress your friends your egg-cellent knowledge:

The average egg-laying hen lays 257 eggs per year.

To prevent the yolk of a hard-boiled egg from getting a green ring and keep the whites from becoming hard and rubbery, cook the eggs gently on low to medium heat.

There is no nutritional difference between brown eggs and white eggs.

A large egg has 75 calories; an extra-large egg has 84 calories

Jackie Silver is the founder and president of Aging Backwards, LLC, and author of "Aging Backwards: Secrets to Staying Young." Send your questions or comments to: jackie@agingbackwards.comor follow her on Twitter, @AgingBackwards. Sign up for her free new

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