An Egg A Day

The verdict is in, one egg a day is not bad for the heart. Harvard researchers have now released data from eight prospective studies that states “there is no evidence that eating one egg a day increases the risk of heart disease or stroke”. The final result was the same for non-diabetic women and men spanning all age groups. Since eggs first came under attack decades ago researchers have been testing and retesting to determine whether the daily consumption of eggs increases the risk of heart disease, and they’ve found that the majority of studies find no significant association between eating eggs and heart disease. Most of us have continued to enjoy eggs, taking the fear mongering over eating them with a grain of salt, which by the way is supposed to be bad for us as well. It continues to come back to the same axiom over and over again, everything in moderation. Eggs are an affordable, low calorie source of protein, minerals, and unsaturated fatty acids, which scientists say could actually lower the risk of heart disease. One of the co-authors of the study did say that “eating more than one egg a day might be harmful, in theory, but there is no data on that”. Ah, yes, I see where this is headed.