Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

aussieguy1234

Since the study was done on Seventh Day Adventists, it's worth noting that they are all vegetarian, so no meat based protein options here...

tfwnopmt

Cancer is also inversely correlated with alzheimer's. Phrased another way, egg consumption is correlated with cancer.

adjejmxbdjdn

> In addition, to evaluate potential bias because of unmeasured systematic differences between consumers and nonconsumers, we conducted a sensitivity analysis excluding vegans. Vegans comprised a substantial portion of the zero egg consumption group, which could disproportionately influence this group, and they often differ in other lifestyle or health-related characteristics. So they eliminated vegans from the sensitivity analysis despite them comprising a substantial portion of the no-egg group. If the analysis doesn’t hold with vegans included, it’s probably saying a lot about dairy rather than eggs.

bastard_op

I tried to look, but the google captcha wouldn't let me, finally gave up trying.

ChrisArchitect

Some previous discussion 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038873

willis936

Why would having alzheimer's reduce people's desire to eat eggs?

pinkmuffinere

I’m copying this comment from discussion two months ago > Caveat: > > Funding [...] The analyses in this study were supported by an investigator-initiated grant from the American Egg Board. [...]

ChiMan

Quality of this study aside, and n of 1 here, my own state of mind, clarity of thought, and sleep are all noticeably better when I'm eating 2 or 3 eggs a day, 3 to 5 days a week. (I might go 7 days, but an independent value placed on dietary variety prevents that--perhaps foolishly when I notice what I'm eating on off days instead of the eggs.) Regardless, this whole eggs-are-evil thing has probably done more to harm the health of Westerners than any other dietary advice, with the possible exception of the fat-is-evil nonsense.

sph

To the egg lovers among us: what percentage of the mass you ingest over the lifetime do you think eggs total up to? Shall we say 5%? Suppose the remaining 95% is healthy vegetables, or a ludicrous amount of junk food. Do you think you can attribute any effect to eggs over the course of a lifetime? Of course not. However that is how dietary research works, and together with the blatant conflict of interest in this case, still call themselves a science whose findings get readily published in social media and newspapers. If I were king of this place, the first thing I would do would be to ban papers on nutrition, and nothing of value would be lost.