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Eggs Might Not Be That Great for You After All

6 points by mudil 8y ago

octosphere 8y ago
This is why I buy egg whites. They come in a carton in my local market, and previously they were very hard to find. I had to ask management to keep getting them in, as they kept disappearing from the shelves
mtgx 8y ago
A better source: https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2019/03/eating-eggs-and-cholesterol-linked-to-heart-disease-and-death-risk/ https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2019/03/eating-eggs-a... The link to the study in the WSJ post doesn't even work. Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2728487 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27284... I personally don't think this may be a great study, as usually this type of studies aren't so rigorous. In the end it seems to say the same thing every cholesterol study has said in the past -- that cholesterol is "associated" with higher levels of chronic disease. But it's never identified as the cause of those chronic diseases. > How the study was conducted Diet data were collected using food frequency questionnaires or by taking a diet history. Each participant was asked a long list of what they’d eaten for the previous year or month. The data were collected during a single visit. The study had up to 31 years of follow up (median: 17.5 years), during which 5,400 cardiovascular events and 6,132 all-cause deaths were diagnosed. A major limitation of the study is participants’ long-term eating patterns weren’t assessed. “We have one snapshot of what their eating pattern looked like,” Allen said. “But we think they represent an estimate of a person’s dietary intake. Still, people may have changed their diet, and we can’t account for that.”
anoncoward111 8y ago
There are multiple contradictory studies from Harvard about eggs. As a result, there are youtubers who believe that cholesterol is a benficial steroid-like substance for muscle growth (Snake Diet guy), and others who feel tha it causes heart disease and death (Vegans such as durianrider) The interesting thing is that both men seem to be qualitatively and quantitatively healthy, both on blood tests and physical performances
- Wowfunhappy 8y ago
  > The interesting thing is that both men seem to be qualitatively and quantitatively healthy, both on blood tests and physical performances. I don't find this particularly interesting. There are far too many other potential factors in an individual's health. Studies tell us about populations, not individuals.
- perl4ever 8y ago
  I keep reading things about how whether you see statistically significant results from a study can depend on things like whether you group subpopulations together... My conclusion is that no matter how much lip service people give to the saying "correlation is not causation", they don't live it, because the only practical thing to do is publish whenever you find a correlation, or else you will perish.
airstrike 8y ago
Except nobody ever fucking controls for how these eggs are cooked (fried with butter or hard-boiled?!) FUD of the worst kind.
- ksaj 8y ago
  And no mention of the other servings, typically being bacon and/or sausages.
kaetemi 8y ago
Ah, yes, all food is bad for you.

6 points by mudil 8y ago

This is why I buy egg whites. They come in a carton in my local market, and previously they were very hard to find. I had to ask management to keep getting them in, as they kept disappearing from the shelves

mtgx 8y ago

A better source: https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2019/03/eating-eggs-and-cholesterol-linked-to-heart-disease-and-death-risk/ https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2019/03/eating-eggs-a... The link to the study in the WSJ post doesn't even work. Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2728487 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27284... I personally don't think this may be a great study, as usually this type of studies aren't so rigorous. In the end it seems to say the same thing every cholesterol study has said in the past -- that cholesterol is "associated" with higher levels of chronic disease. But it's never identified as the cause of those chronic diseases. > How the study was conducted Diet data were collected using food frequency questionnaires or by taking a diet history. Each participant was asked a long list of what they’d eaten for the previous year or month. The data were collected during a single visit. The study had up to 31 years of follow up (median: 17.5 years), during which 5,400 cardiovascular events and 6,132 all-cause deaths were diagnosed. A major limitation of the study is participants’ long-term eating patterns weren’t assessed. “We have one snapshot of what their eating pattern looked like,” Allen said. “But we think they represent an estimate of a person’s dietary intake. Still, people may have changed their diet, and we can’t account for that.”

anoncoward111 8y ago

There are multiple contradictory studies from Harvard about eggs. As a result, there are youtubers who believe that cholesterol is a benficial steroid-like substance for muscle growth (Snake Diet guy), and others who feel tha it causes heart disease and death (Vegans such as durianrider) The interesting thing is that both men seem to be qualitatively and quantitatively healthy, both on blood tests and physical performances

Wowfunhappy 8y ago
> The interesting thing is that both men seem to be qualitatively and quantitatively healthy, both on blood tests and physical performances. I don't find this particularly interesting. There are far too many other potential factors in an individual's health. Studies tell us about populations, not individuals.
perl4ever 8y ago
I keep reading things about how whether you see statistically significant results from a study can depend on things like whether you group subpopulations together... My conclusion is that no matter how much lip service people give to the saying "correlation is not causation", they don't live it, because the only practical thing to do is publish whenever you find a correlation, or else you will perish.

airstrike 8y ago

Except nobody ever fucking controls for how these eggs are cooked (fried with butter or hard-boiled?!) FUD of the worst kind.

ksaj 8y ago
And no mention of the other servings, typically being bacon and/or sausages.

kaetemi 8y ago

Ah, yes, all food is bad for you.