Eat eggs every day and be healthy
You’ve probably had an on-again, off-again relationship with eggs. One minute their cholesterol causes heart disease and the next you better eat the whole egg, otherwise you’re missing out.
Well, a new study has (hopefully) settled the debate: eating up to one egg per day is actually associated with a lower risk of heart disease and stroke.
Published in the journal Heart, the study looked at more than a half million adults in China. Participants reported on their egg eating habits and the scientists followed-up after nine years on average, comparing egg consumption with disease and death registries.
Specifically, daily egg eaters enjoyed an 11 percent lower risk of heart disease compared to people who didn't eat any eggs at all. For haemorrhagic stroke (a brain ble...