In this video, we'll uncover the brand-new study that tells us that eating eggs is going
to cause heart disease.
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Now in this video we're talking about is eating eggs bad for your heart. Recently the Journal
of American Medical Association basically came out with this study saying that you're
eating eggs is going to increase your risk of heart disease and it's going to increase
your rate of mortality, which is very scary stuff. And I can tell you that I feel like
I'm losing brain cells as I'm talking about this. But the problem is, is that I've done
a lot of different content around the topic of eggs and how healthy they are. So a lot
of people are asking me this, so though I don't want to cover this, because I think
it's just kind of craziness, I'm going to just for the people who are getting confused,
because this is one of the things that just becomes absolutely appalling about people
who are trying to live a healthy lifestyle is they keep running into this stuff like
this that just totally confuses them. Many of the major media outlets took this story
and ran with it just saying eggs are going to kill you. So let's breeze through this
topic and get to the bottom of it.
Now when we look at this 2019 JAMA study here, basically what we find is that this is an
observational study. So this isn't a new study in the sense of they just did this double
blinded study and they went in and figured this out. It's just they went and looked at
a whole bunch of old studies. They took six different studies dating back to 1985. Dating
back to 1985 - and that's the first problem is that people live different today than they
used to in 1985. So when you're basing information off of that, there's going to be a lot of
flawed information. A couple things to take into consideration. Fact - people exercise
more today than they did back then. Fact - people don't smoke as much today as they did back
then. And other fact - people were probably cooking their eggs in margarine back then
because they thought butter was extremely dangerous. There's so many different things
that people were doing back then and they just didn't know any different. So we know
better now and so most people are making better decisions. So we have to take that into consideration
when we look at stuff dating back this far.
Next is that the study was questionnaire based. This becomes a little bit of a problem because
when you do these questionnaire-based studies, a lot of people don't remember the information
they're asking for, but they will give an answer anyway. So basically, if I say, what
did you eat for breakfast two months ago on Monday. Well you probably have no idea and
most people don't. And the same thing happens in clinical practice all the time, right?
We work with people and we ask them questions like on a scale of one to 10 what was the
pain at the onset of this problem? What is it now? What is it at his best? What was it
at its worst? And people will start going, I don't know, I don't remember. Well, it's
the same thing when you start asking people what they ate, how much turkey they ate, how
much meat they ate, how many eggs they ate. People just don't remember these kinds of
details. But they'll tend to go and lean a certain bias. So we have to take that into
consideration. Now we look at this, what they determined is 300 milligrams of cholesterol
- mind you, that's two eggs - 300 milligrams of cholesterol will increase cardiovascular
disease by 17%, increase mortality rate by 18% okay? And every time you add half an egg,
again, it's going to increase this number by 6% and every time you add half an egg in
on top of those two eggs, once again, it's going to increase this number by 8%. Okay?
So what they're finding basically in this study is that you are going to die as a result
of cholesterol. Now, once again, take into consideration, this is only two eggs right
here. So, that's really crazy numbers right there. One of the things that they found with
this study too is there's a conflict of interest in the release of the funding support and
disclosure. And so what they found basically is that with this study that they don't really
know who's funding it, and the people who are funding it that they do know of, it's
kind of a conflict of interest. And that's a big problem with many studies out there.
Most people are funding studies with their agenda and that's basically what they're saying
with this study right here.
Next here is there's weak correlation. There's weak correlation between eggs actually causing
the heart disease and increase in mortality, right? And when you have a weak correlation,
that's a big problem because at a week level you can correlate almost anything. I bet you
at a weak level we can correlate eating eggs to causing car accidents, right? Because if
you were to go and look at how many people get in car accidents, there's a good chance
that they ate an egg in that day. And so, you have to understand some of the goofy things
that can come into consideration here when we talk about weak correlation, and it happens
a lot when somebody who has an agenda is trying to actually correlate things in research.
Next here is there is no control. So once again, I say this all the time, when you talk
about certain foods like eating high fat diet for instance, and that causing health concerns,
one of the things we have to consider is what else is a person doing? In this study there
was no control to say, okay, yeah, these people were eating eggs, but they're also smoking.
They didn't exercise. They drank two sodas a day and they were eating fast food for the
most part. So, there's nobody actually determining that. And so that's a big thing to take into
consideration because of course if you're eating eggs compiled with an absolutely horrible
lifestyle, it’s going to cause some serious problems. So, we have to take that into consideration.
And then the last thing I want to know here is what's the motive? What's the motive behind
taking something that we know is a good health food that has been around for thousands of
years and been consumed by the population forever and trying to demonize it all the
time. I mean like are we going to start demonizing exercise and say stop doing that because it's
killing you. And there's these different truisms that we are 100% aware of that are good for
us that aren't going to cause health problems. But yet there's these studies that come out
that are just smashing them like a high fat, low carb Diet. And so, when we look at this,
my question was what's the motive? What's the goal here? What's the interest in doing
this? And so, what I want to do is hear your thoughts, put it in the comment section down
here below. What's your thoughts? Why are they going in and trying to demonize eggs?
What's the purpose of it? Put your thoughts in the comments section below. I'd love to
know.
And the other thing I want to mention here is just egg nutrition. Once again, I always
tell people it's a perfect food. It's great in so many ways is loaded with choline and
it's good for the brain, lots of vitamins in here, lots of antioxidants. It's high in
fat, high in protein, and it has about 77 calories per egg. So overall eggs are very
good, healthy foods. So put your thoughts in the comments section below here. Give this
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