Bad News for Egg Lovers

These studies are notorious for being worthless. Very few people can remember what they ate the previous day, much less the prior year. In addition even if the data is recorded correctly, it can barely show a correlation, much less a connection between a diet and a given outcome.

"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."

Ugh not this again. This isn’t news. Cholesterol levels are largely genetic not dietary. The vast, vast majority of cholesterol in your body is synthesized by your body.

There are far more interesting papers linking the health effects associated with cholesterol to its role in virus lifecycle. The levels aren’t relevant so much as what’s happening in association therewith.

Dietary studies are largely worthless IMO due to confounding factors.

How is this news?