For years, doctors have warned patients with high cholesterol to avoid eating eggs because it would put them at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). But new research reveals that people with high cholesterol who eat eggs weekly have a 27% lower risk of CVD-related deaths than people with high cholesterol who avoid eggs.
What's more, older adults "who ate eggs 1-6 times a week had a 15 per cent lower risk of death from any cause, and a 29 per cent lower risk of cardiovascular disease-related death" than those who "never or infrequently ate eggs." The study involved almost 9,000 adults 70 or older.
Via Monash University.
Previously:
• Harvard med student eats 720 eggs in 30 days, cholesterol drops
• Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds
