How eating an egg a day can help keep heart disease away

THE 1960s advertising slogan “Go to work on an egg” may have offered sound dietary advice, according to new research that found an egg a day may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Consumption of up to one egg daily was linked with lower rates of strokes and heart disease, according to the research which was published in the journal ‘Heart’.

The researchers, from Peking University Health Science Centre, examined data from 416,213 participants in China over a nine-year period.

Those who ate up to one egg a day had a 26pc lower risk of haemorrhagic stroke, 28pc lower risk of haemorrhagic stroke death and an 18pc lower risk of cardiovascular disease death.

There was also a 12pc reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease in those consuming around 5.32 eggs a week compared to those eating around two.

“This study finds there is an association between moderate level of egg consumption (up to one egg per day) and a lower cardiac event rate,” the authors said.

Professor Nita Forouhi, of the MRC epidemiology unit at the University of Cambridge in England, said: “The take-home message of this research from a large study from China is that at the very least up to one egg a day is not linked with raised cardiovascular risk, and at best up to one egg a day may even have health benefits.”

(© Daily Telegraph, London)