Eggs are Back in the News - But There is Nothing New

Nearly everyone I ask is sick and tired of how often we nutrition experts seem to change our minds about whether eggs are good or bad for you. In the past several weeks, alone, two powerful studies have been published in major medical journals. Of course they contradict each other. One tells us that eggs will prevent heart attacks and the other that they will kill you with a heart attack.

But a third study, also published in the past few weeks with enormous media attention, may once and for all answer the question of whether eggs are healthy or harmful. In it, they looked at people who skipped breakfast in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s and found that those who did had a higher risk of heart attacks.

And since, according to the American Egg Board, more eggs are eaten at breakfast than any other meal, one might surmise that this proves that eating eggs reduces heart attacks.

The study, in fact, proves no such thing. But this is how far awry our conclusions can be when we try to attribute cause based on observation. Despite what the news says, none of these studies provide any information about whether eggs cause anything, or that skipping breakfast shortens your life. Each of these studies is designed for one thing only: to look for a correlation. Not to determine cause and effect.

Continue reading at https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/442764-are-eggs-are-good-or-bad-for-you