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It depends. Eggs are part of cakes and pancakes, and a very quick to cook healthy thing to eat. Family of 4 now, we go through between 8 eggs on a light week and 32 eggs on a week I make a lot of egg stuff, or if someone is bulking, like today I made shakshuka for supper and a cake, that's eight eggs in one meal.
I think they are a commodity and historically a cheap source of animal protein, that's why they are talked about.
Protein is not a nutrient that anyone is deficient in. Any plant that humans eat provides enough protein if you consume enough to meet your calorie requirements. You have never met a person who is in protein deficiency who was not also literally in starvation from not having eaten. The whole "we need a cheap source of protein" thing is a myth. It's everywhere, it's inescapable. It's literally the building blocks of all life on Earth. It's like people in the 50s extolling the health virtues of smoking, it's pure marketing bullshit that we have become completely steeped in.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcopenia
Sarcopenia is a real thing, happening to people who eat a "healthy" diet.
The fact of the matter is most people are not eating enough bioavailable and complete protein (with all the essential amino acids). If your missing any of the amino acids you can't use that "protein"
Not to mention food labels use crude protin, a measure of nitrogen, they don't actually measure the amino acids.
Sadly this means many people trying to hit their moderate protein targets of 1g/kg bodyweight are absolutely not getting enough protein.
Using this graph as an example, different foods have different amounts of bioavailable nutrition. Nobody is going to eat 12kg of processed grains a day to hit their minimums.
Green leafy vegetables are no slouch either. I remember we had a chart with nutrition per calorie and collard greens were way up there. Eggs have much protein per calorie. I agree with foggenboody though, sarcopenia is mostly from inactivity, and particularly from not doing strength training. Your body will find the nutrition in whatever you eat if you lift first.
The chart is in the message you replied to. Dark leafy greens are pretty dense per calorie, but not so much per gram. Something like 800g a day needed of dark leafy greens.
https://www.diaas-calculator.com/
If you want to lookup individual food options
As far as a Sarcoprnia goes you need both activity AND protein. If you neglect protein, your body can't maintain muscles. As jerkface above was saying that nobody is protein deficient, I was refuting their claim
I would never be foolish enough to say that nutrition isn't important, but most people who are becoming frail in the western world are doing so because they lack exercise, not sources of protein.
Eggs are not healthy to consume.