An egg a day is too much for some women

[janelee]

Health experts recommend limiting egg yolks, as one yolk contains about two-thirds of a healthy adult's suggested allotment of cholesterol (http://www.lookchem.com/cas-57/57-88-5.html).
Researchers in Japan found that women who consumed one or more eggs a day were more likely to die than women who ate one or two eggs a week. The findings are published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The new results support advice to eat eggs in moderation, Dr. Yasuyuki Nakamura of Kyoto Women's University told Reuters Health.
According to Nakamura's team, it's possible that the health effects of eggs are greater in a population such as the Japanese, who may get a relatively large portion of their dietary cholesterol (http://www.lookchem.com/cas-57/57-88-5.html) from eggs.
The researchers studied data on nearly 9,300 men and women who in 1980 completed lifestyle surveys, which included questions on how frequently they ate various foods. Participants' blood pressure, cholesterol (http://www.lookchem.com/cas-57/57-88-5.html) levels and other health indicators were measured at the start of the study, and deaths were tracked over the next 14 years.
At the start of the study, the average cholesterol level among women who had a daily egg was three percent higher than that of women who ate eggs more sparingly.
The researchers found that women who ate an egg a day were 22 percent more likely to die of any cause compared with those who ate only a couple eggs per week -- regardless of factors such as age, smoking habits and body weight. Those who ate two or more eggs a day showed a still higher death risk, but only small number of women fell into that category.

[cnw]

well that is interesting because an egg contains every vitamin and mineral except E.
Most people would ot be affected by the cholesterol in an egg if they didn't eat like junk the rest of the time.

[Sherrie]

Researchers in Japan found that women who consumed one or more eggs a day were more likely to die than women who ate one or two eggs a week.

I find that statement odd. Not by you, but by the researchers. We are all likely to die whether we eat an egg or not.

In the research; How many women who were exactly alike health wise, and age and height and weight, and so on and so forth, ate the eggs, and how many did not. And of the ones who ate the eggs, how many died. How many who did not eat the eggs die, and of the ones living, what was their average life expectancy compared to the average of the ones who died?

[Unneth]

I ate 3 fried eggs for breakfast today! :blushhap:

[Lucariokid13]

I love eggs... but of i have anymore than 1 every 2 days im up all night in pain :cry:

[flybaby]

I never even think about whether I'm eating an egg a day or not. Some days I eat three eggs, others none. It all evens out in the end, I'm sure.

[L'Ange]

well that is interesting because an egg contains every vitamin and mineral except E.
Most people would ot be affected by the cholesterol in an egg if they didn't eat like junk the rest of the time.
Amen to that. I did not know that about all the vitamins in eggs.