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If you read the head line “eggs are bad” again last week read this article from Zoe Harcombe. Below are a series of Tweets she put out on social media. If you go to her website and create a sign in you can read the whole article. Thanks to Zoe are wont have to relive 1978 again..... Remember our media takes millions from big industry so when you see a head line about health or nutrition consider who the article benefits the most and look a little deeper. Things wrong with the egg study: 1) Association was found with CVD, but not CHD - a major part of CVD. http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol-cvd/ … Things wrong with the egg study: 2) The study was a meta-analysis of six US studies, dominated by one; any findings are not generalizable to non-US populations. http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol-cvd/ … Things wrong with the egg study: 3) Association does not mean causation - 17% is too small to get off the ground for Bradford Hill criteria. http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol-cvd/ … Things wrong with the egg study: 4) 17% is relative risk. It would equate to an absolute risk difference of 17 vs. 15 events (i.e. 2 events) per 1,000 person years to use the event rate from the dominant study. http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol-cvd/ … Things wrong with the egg study: 5) This was not a study of pure egg consumption. It was a study of “Ingredients in mixed dishes”, which – for eggs – means a long list of junk food from cakes to ice cream. http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol-cvd/ … Things wrong with the egg study: 6) Not all significantly different characteristics were adjusted for. Notably the study did not adjust for sig. diff. CVD risk factors, as it assumed they could have been caused by eggs/cholesterol! Lol! http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol-cvd/ … Things wrong with the egg study: 7) The energy intake reported in the lowest dietary cholesterol group was one third of that in the highest. Maybe people weren’t eating more eggs or dietary cholesterol – they were just more honest about, or better at recalling, their food intake! http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol-cvd/ … Things wrong with the egg study: 8) Claims about harm from each additional half egg each day were made a mockery of when sub-group analysis revealed that this only applied to specific, but random, groups of participants e.g. women, but not men; slim, but not overweight people. http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol-cvd/ … Things wrong with the egg study: 9) The conflicts were the who’s who of statin manufacturers . The paper appears to have as its core purpose resurrection of the diet-cholesterol-heart myth – the dietary cholesterol part of which was rejected (by Keys) at least 65 years ago. http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol-cvd/ … Things wrong with the egg study: 10) It's nutritional epidemiology! http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol-cvd/ … 
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