Does Eating a Dozen Eggs a Week Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease

Dr Kiel reviews a study comparing consumption of eggs to risk of cardiovascular disease. SportsMedReview https://www.sportsmedreview.com/by-joint/ Wiki Sports Medicine https://wikism.org/Main_Page Egg intake has been controversial for decades. This is mostly related to the high fat and cholesterol content of a single egg and the historical belief that dietary fat was bad for you. Specifically, one egg has 5g of fat, of which 1.5g are saturated, 0.7g are polyunsaturated and 2g are monounsaturated. They also have 185 mg of cholesterol, which is nearly ⅔ of your recommended daily value. However, newer research is casting doubt on several nutritional myths. The first is that saturated fat is bad for you. The second is that dietary cholesterol does not equal serum cholesterol or the cholesterol level you get on a lab test. Studies have shown little to no association between egg intake and cardiovascular disease or mortality in the general population. Despite this, controversy exists. In some smaller studies, egg intake may even have a protective effect on the risk of cardiovascular disease, meaning strokes and heart attacks. The authors of this study completed a 12 month trial of pre-diabetic patients with specific diet instructions to emphasis mono- and polyunsaturated fats to assess the relationship of egg intake in pre-diabetics and type 2 diabetics with cardiovascular disease.

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