Eating an egg a day will not increase your risk of heart
disease or stroke, according to a new research report posted online by the
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
However, it will increase your risk of developing Type 2
diabetes and, if you already suffer from Type 2 diabetes, it will significantly
increase your risk of heart disease and stroke.
The study is what’s know as a metaanalysysis because it
analyses the results from 16 studies that followed egg eaters, or those who don’t
eat any or many eggs, for between seven and 20 years.
Healthy people who eat an egg a day were no more likely to
develop heart disease or have a stroke than anybody else.
But their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes increased by 42
per cent.
Those who had Type 2 diabetes and ate an egg a day increased
their risk of heart disease or stroke by 69 per cent.
The authors of the study are Jan Yel Shin, Pengcheng Xui, Yasuyuki Nakamura and Ka He.
