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In Spacedoc’s newsletter this morning a link to a letter about eggs:

In a recent Atherosclerosis article, Spence et al set out to determine if consumption of egg yolks leads to carotid vascular damage [1]. The authors’ suggested premise is that egg yolks are a rich source of cholesterol, making them a risk factor for cerebrovascular disease.
How cholesterol became established as a risk factor for cerebrovascular disease  despite a historically weak and inconsistent association appears in great detail elsewhere [2]. Suffice it to say,
dietary cholesterol may have very little impact on serum cholesterol
[3], and serum cholesterol may have very little impact on vascular damage [4] and cerebrovascular disease [5]. (Moreover, if serum
cholesterol has any effect at all, it may be one of protection e.g.,
against hemorrhagic and total stroke in hypertensives [5,6]).

Lucan SC, Egg on their faces (probably not in their necks); The yolk of the tenuous cholesterol-to-plaque conclusion, Atherosclerosis (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2012.10.076

In Defence of Eggs

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Eggs are perfect packaging of a fully balanced meal for any animal including ourselves. Tell ‘em Zoe!

I really have got better things to do than to continually dissect articles from so called scientists, but, when the item under attack is the super food called egg, someone has to leap to its defence. So here goes….

Zoe

Egg yolk consumption, carotid plaque & bad science