[Mondialisation]

Source?

Here is a cohort study of 521,120 participants recruited between 1995 and 1996 and prospectively followed up until the end of 2011:

''intakes of eggs and cholesterol were associated with higher all-cause, CVD, and cancer mortality. The increased mortality associated with egg consumption was largely influenced by cholesterol intake. Our findings suggest limiting cholesterol intake and replacing whole eggs with egg whites/substitutes or other alternative protein sources for facilitating cardiovascular health and long-term survival.''

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33561122/

[zamfi]

This is a suggestive study, but far from conclusive on its own.

Given the popular zeitgeist around egg consumption, it’s quite likely that those who eat eggs are also more likely to engage in other riskier or unhealthful activities.

This study seems to try to look for confounds, but in the end is a self-report study, which (again given common attitudes around egg consumption) means that I’d be looking for huge effect sizes to believe there is something real going on.

As it is, you’d have to believe that people who care about health but eat eggs anyway are less than 7% more likely to underreport their cholesterol consumption. (Number made up, but the effect size in the paper is about a 7% greater risk.)

[hn_throwaway_99]

I was specifically referring to when the US, relatively recently, changed the dietary guidelines regarding egg consumption: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/eggs-fats...

[saltdoo]

I wonder if the whole egg eaters also ate more bacon?

[trophycase]

It could even be the teflon from the frying pan.

[anonymouse008]

yeah the nitrates would be a quicker way to cancer in my intuitive brain