STUDY SUGGESTS EATING EGGS MAY HAVE NO IMPACT ON HEART HEALTH

Reuters (2/5, Rapaport) reports that “people who eat an egg a day are no more likely than those who rarely eat eggs to have high cholesterol, heart attacks and strokes or to die prematurely, a large study” published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests. Lead author Mahshid Dehghan said, “Previous studies on egg consumption and diseases have been contradictory because most of these studies were relatively small or moderate in size and did not include individuals from a large number of countries.” Reuters says “the new study included 177,000 people from 50 countries on six continents.”