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Professor emeritus of nutrition and dietetics at King's College London
Its limitations are the dependence on a single measure of dietary intake as baseline when the average follow-up period was 17 years, and the strong correlation of egg intake with unhealthy aspects of lifestyle, including smoking, obesity, high red and processed meat intake and low intake of fruit and vegetable intake. It is impossible to rule out confounding factors when habits are strongly correlated with each other.
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Tom Sanders, quoted by the Science Media Centre in "expert reaction to study looking at eggs, cholesterol and heart disease," March 15, 2019.
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Observational nutrition studies are too confounded to show whether eggs cause harm
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AI Verified The quote is directly about whether observational egg studies can establish harm: it says egg intake is strongly correlated with unhealthy lifestyle factors and that confounding cannot be ruled out; the source context also frames these studies as showing association rather than causation. That makes a stance on the complete statement readily determinable. ([sciencemediacentre.org](https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-looking-at-eggs-cholesterol-and-heart-disease/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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AI Verified He argues that egg intake in these cohort studies is entangled with other unhealthy habits and that “it is impossible to rule out confounding factors”; in the source context he also says such prospective studies “can only show associations and do not prove causation,” which strongly implies support for the statement. ([sciencemediacentre.org](https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-looking-at-eggs-cholesterol-and-heart-disease/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The Science Media Centre page dated 2019-03-15 contains the submitted wording verbatim in a statement attributed to Prof Tom Sanders, Professor emeritus of Nutrition and Dietetics, King’s College London; this confirms the quote is authentic, correctly attributed, and the stored date and source URL are correct. ([sciencemediacentre.org](https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-looking-at-eggs-cholesterol-and-heart-disease/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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