Observational nutrition studies are too confounded to show whether eggs cause harm

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  Robbie Puddick

  Registered nutritionist and health writer

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  Some observational studies suggest that people who consume more eggs are more at risk of coronary heart disease. But the associations in these studies aren’t causal, and people who eat more eggs also tend to smoke more, drink more alcohol, exercise l...

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  Ryan Cheung

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  The study doesn't touch on the way it's prepared specifically. What we do know is that the different fats and saturated fats, if you fry your eggs versus boiling it, does seem to make a difference. And the study also didn't look at how eggs are prepa...

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  Amanda G. Smith

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  Actually, more of the cholesterol that gets into our bloodstream and affects our LDL really is from things like butter and saturated fats, and not so much from eggs [...] Eggs can be, maybe problematic if you have them every day for breakfast with ba...

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  Jisoo Oh

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  Our study found that moderate egg consumption was associated with a significantly lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Compared to people who rarely or never consumed eggs, those who ate eggs regularly had lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease a...

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  Tracy Parker

  British Heart Foundation senior dietitian

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  It’s the saturated fat in these other foods – not the eggs themselves – that can raise cholesterol levels in your blood.

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  Tara Spires-Jones

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  This type of investigation cannot prove that the meat consumption was the cause of reduced dementia risk as other factors [...] likely influence unprocessed meat consumption.

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  Ezekiel Emanuel

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  Well, diet is hard to study. For one thing, what you eat today and every day has an impact over years. Those kinds of studies are hard to do. That's the first thing. Second, on diet, it's hard to randomize people and have them stick to the diet for f...

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  Committee on Nutrition, Health Council of the Netherlands

  Advisory committee of the Health Council of the Netherlands (Gezondheidsraad) that reviews evidence on nutrition and health

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  the committee concluded that the evidence for egg consumption and its association with CHD risk is inconclusive because there were both suggestions of neutral and protective associations reported, and findings were not always robust in subgroup analy...

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  John P. A. Ioannidis

  Physician-scientist and meta-researcher at Stanford University, known for work on the reliability of scientific research

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  Moreover, given the complicated associations of eating behaviors and patterns with many time-varying social and behavioral factors that also affect health, no currently available cohort includes sufficient information to address confounding in nutrit...

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  Steven E. Nissen

  Cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic and former president of the American College of Cardiology

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  U.S. Dietary Guidelines: An Evidence-Free Zone

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  Samuel J. Dicken

  Nutrition researcher

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  This includes the largely observational evidence base, and with it, unmeasured confounding and determining causality (or ruling out reverse causality).

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  Kathy Marinias

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  For most healthy people, moderate egg consumption is not a meaningful cardiovascular concern, and the focus on eggs as a cholesterol villain has often distracted from more significant dietary contributors like saturated fat from cheese, processed mea...

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  Dariush Mozaffarian

  Cardiologist and nutrition scientist, Director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University

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  Modern nutrition science is up to the task.

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  Walter Willett

  Epidemiologist and nutrition researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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  We agree that we have measurement error, but it's not to a degree that would make the information not useful. Of course we understand that we cannot measure anything perfectly, but your study doesn't depend on perfect measurement.

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