Moderate Egg Consumption Not a Threat to Healthy People

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Moderate Egg Consumption Not a Threat to Healthy People

There has been an ongoing alternation of positive and negative reports on the nutritional value of egg consumption. The controversy received another positive outlook for eggs in this research paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Data was collected and analyzed from two large prospective studies: the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (51,529 men) and the Nurses' Health Study (121,700 men and women). The subjects, who were free of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, or cancer at the outset, (37,851 men, age 40-75 and 80,082 women, age 34-59) returned diet questionnaires that included information on egg consumption.

Results: Men were followed-up over 8 years and women over 14 years. They were assessed for incidents of coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke. After adjustment for age, smoking, and other potential CHD risk factors, the study found "no evidence of an overall significant association between egg consumption and CHD or stroke in either men or women."

The dozen researchers involved in this study concluded that healthy men and women could safely consume up to 1 egg per day without substantially increasing their overall risk of CHD or stroke.

Hu FB, Stampfer MJ, Rimm EB, et al. A prospective study of egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women. Journal of the American Medical Association, Apr. 21, 1999;281(15), pp1387-94.