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Egg Nutrition Center says recent study on eggs and heart health is inconsistent
Mar 19, 2019, 11:45 AM
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The executive director of the American Egg Board’s Egg Nutrition Center says a new study linking higher consumption of dietary cholesterol in eggs to cardiovascular disease is inconsistent with other recent studies.
Mickey
Rubin says the study by Northwestern University researchers doesn’t reference
other studies that led the U.S. Dietary Guidelines to drop the daily limit on dietary
cholesterol in 2015.
“One
of the studies in which they reference to provide that guidance was a large metanalysis
of 16 other studies and showed that there was absolutely no link between
cholesterol or egg consumption and heart disease risk,” he says.
