Scientists Recast Eggs as Heart-Safe Food After 150,000-Person Study Challenges Cholesterol Rules
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Updated · India Today · Jul 11
Scientists Recast Eggs as Heart-Safe Food After 150,000-Person Study Challenges Cholesterol Rules
2 articles · Updated · India Today · Jul 11
Summary
A 150,000-person study across 18 countries helped drive a sharp reassessment of eggs, with researchers saying dietary cholesterol plays a far smaller role in heart disease than older guidelines assumed.
Newer evidence reviewed in Lancet and other journals found up to 1 egg a day did not raise cardiovascular risk for most healthy people, while high-carbohydrate diets were linked to higher mortality.
That shift has fed an egg boom in India, where output reached 84 billion eggs in 2016 and annual per-capita consumption rose to 63 from 15 in 1980.
The policy fight remains active: 19 of 29 states in north and west India exclude eggs from school meals even as nutrition experts argue they are an affordable protein source for children.
The broader rethink also challenges decades of low-fat, low-cholesterol advice and shifts attention toward sugar, refined carbs and poultry-industry risks such as antibiotic overuse.