Eggs Might Not Be That Great for You After All

A better source:

https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2019/03/eating-eggs-a...

The link to the study in the WSJ post doesn't even work.

Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27284...

I personally don't think this may be a great study, as usually this type of studies aren't so rigorous. In the end it seems to say the same thing every cholesterol study has said in the past -- that cholesterol is "associated" with higher levels of chronic disease. But it's never identified as the cause of those chronic diseases.

> How the study was conducted

Diet data were collected using food frequency questionnaires or by taking a diet history. Each participant was asked a long list of what they’d eaten for the previous year or month. The data were collected during a single visit. The study had up to 31 years of follow up (median: 17.5 years), during which 5,400 cardiovascular events and 6,132 all-cause deaths were diagnosed.

A major limitation of the study is participants’ long-term eating patterns weren’t assessed.

“We have one snapshot of what their eating pattern looked like,” Allen said. “But we think they represent an estimate of a person’s dietary intake. Still, people may have changed their diet, and we can’t account for that.”

There are multiple contradictory studies from Harvard about eggs.

As a result, there are youtubers who believe that cholesterol is a benficial steroid-like substance for muscle growth (Snake Diet guy), and others who feel tha it causes heart disease and death (Vegans such as durianrider)

The interesting thing is that both men seem to be qualitatively and quantitatively healthy, both on blood tests and physical performances

This is why I buy egg whites. They come in a carton in my local market, and previously they were very hard to find. I had to ask management to keep getting them in, as they kept disappearing from the shelves

Except nobody ever fucking controls for how these eggs are cooked (fried with butter or hard-boiled?!)

FUD of the worst kind.

Ah, yes, all food is bad for you.