This might go over easy: Eggs may be good for you after all, study says
The incredible edible egg is back! After years of concern over whether eggs are good for you, a new study shows they are not bad for your heart after all.
Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, as U.S. News and World Report noted, the research supports a previous study with similar results conducted over a threemonth period. The study tracked 128 participants over a year and found that egg consumption as part of a healthy diet does not raise cardiovascular risk factors, including increases in cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure, even for those with pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes. Indeed, researchers found no significant difference in results between those who consumed a higher amount of eggs and those who consumed less.
“Despite differing advice around safe levels of egg consumption for people with pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes, our research indicates people do not need to hold back from eating eggs if this is part of a healthy diet,” Dr. Nick Fuller, an author of the study told U.S. News and World Report. The study was supported with a grant from Australian Eggs, but researchers maintain that the company had no role in the design, conduct, analyses or writing of the findings.
In one gobsmacking finding, participants chowed down 12 eggs per week with no difference in cardiovascular risk markers identified after three months.
“While eggs themselves are high in dietary cholesterol — and people with type 2 diabetes tend to have higher levels of the ‘bad’ low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol — this study supports existing research that shows consumption of eggs has little effect on the levels of cholesterol in the blood of the people eating them,” Fuller explained in Science Daily.
Fuller went on to note that eggs are a nutritional powerhouse, according to Science Daily: “Eggs are a source of protein and micronutrients that could support a range of health and dietary factors including helping to regulate the intake of fat and carbohydrate, eye and heart health, healthy blood vessels and healthy pregnancies.”