eggs every day for brekkie??

F8ck me, you guys have been busy while I wasn't looking!!

Hmmm, well, first off, i have never been on the Atkins diet, cos I've never needed to be, but what I do know is that anyone I know who has been on it, eats alot of fried food, i never fry anything, with the exception of omelettes, which I use a spray olive oil for, I also eat alot of veg which are nice and carby!!!

One thing I can say is that I feel the healthiest when I am off carbs, my body works better, I get more from a workout, I just feel, well, better.

Tonight, however, is Friday, and "cheat" night, so, couple of glasses of wine, and a chinese never killed anyone!!!

cozmik

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Soooo, is it ok to eat eggs every day for breakfast? is there any negative effects that I should know about?

ABSTRACT

Objective: While limited and inconsistent findings have been reported on the relation between dietary cholesterol or egg consumption and fasting glucose, no previous study has examined the association between egg consumption and type 2 diabetes. This project sought to examine the relation between egg intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes in two large prospective cohorts.

Research Design and Methods: Prospective design using data from two completed randomized trials: 20,703 men from the Physicians' Health Study I (1982–2007) and 36,295 women from the Women's Health Study (1992–2007). Egg consumption was ascertained using questionnaires and we used Cox proportional hazard model to estimate relative risks of type 2 diabetes.

Results: During mean follow up of 20.0 years in men and 11.7 years in women, 1,921 men and 2,112 women developed type 2 diabetes. Compared with no egg consumption, multivariable adjusted hazard ratios (95% CI) for type 2 diabetes were 1.09 (0.87–1.37), 1.09 (0.88–1.34), 1.18 (0.95–1.45), 1.46 (1.14–1.86), and 1.58 (1.25–2.01) for consumption of <1, 1, 2–4, 5–6, and 7+ eggs/week, respectively, in men (p for trend <0.0001). Corresponding multivariable hazard ratios (95% CI) for women were 1.06 (0.92–1.22), 0.97 (0.83–1.12), 1.19 (1.03–1.38), 1.18 (0.88–1.58), and 1.77 (1.28–2.43), respectively (p for trend <0.0001).

Conclusions: These data suggest that high levels of egg consumption (daily) are associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes in men and women. Confirmation of these findings in other populations is warranted.

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dc08-1271v1?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Egg+Consumption&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT

g'em

cozmik wrote: »

Conclusions: These data suggest that high levels of egg consumption (daily) are associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes in men and women. Confirmation of these findings in other populations is warranted.

Causation or correlation though? It says nothing about what these people are eating in the rest of their diets.

El_Dangeroso

cozmik wrote: »

ABSTRACT

Objective: While limited and inconsistent findings have been reported on the relation between dietary cholesterol or egg consumption and fasting glucose, no previous study has examined the association between egg consumption and type 2 diabetes. This project sought to examine the relation between egg intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes in two large prospective cohorts.

Research Design and Methods: Prospective design using data from two completed randomized trials: 20,703 men from the Physicians' Health Study I (1982–2007) and 36,295 women from the Women's Health Study (1992–2007). Egg consumption was ascertained using questionnaires and we used Cox proportional hazard model to estimate relative risks of type 2 diabetes.

Results: During mean follow up of 20.0 years in men and 11.7 years in women, 1,921 men and 2,112 women developed type 2 diabetes. Compared with no egg consumption, multivariable adjusted hazard ratios (95% CI) for type 2 diabetes were 1.09 (0.87–1.37), 1.09 (0.88–1.34), 1.18 (0.95–1.45), 1.46 (1.14–1.86), and 1.58 (1.25–2.01) for consumption of <1, 1, 2–4, 5–6, and 7+ eggs/week, respectively, in men (p for trend <0.0001). Corresponding multivariable hazard ratios (95% CI) for women were 1.06 (0.92–1.22), 0.97 (0.83–1.12), 1.19 (1.03–1.38), 1.18 (0.88–1.58), and 1.77 (1.28–2.43), respectively (p for trend <0.0001).

Conclusions: These data suggest that high levels of egg consumption (daily) are associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes in men and women. Confirmation of these findings in other populations is warranted.

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dc08-1271v1?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Egg+Consumption&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT

Junk science of the highest order.. studies like these make me wonder what the heck is going on with the peer review process.

1. They singled out eggs without adjusting for carb intake. These people could have been eating 10 slices of toast with their eggs for all we know.

2. The data comes from self reporting questionnaires, garbage in, garbage out.

3. Correlation does not imply causation, repeat ad infinitum.

Jesus wept.

BTW I eat at least 4 eggs a day, have a healthy BMI, shiny hair and all the myriad benefits of the carb-controlled lifestyle.