Eggs contain high-quality protein with high nutritional value, which is an indispensable ingredient in the daily table of China people. However, egg yolk is a high cholesterol food. So how many eggs you can eat every day has been controversial, but it is generally believed that eating no more than 65,438+0 eggs every day can reasonably supplement protein and is beneficial to your health.

Recently, a study caused an uproar, because it pointed out that eating eggs every day is not only harmful to health, but also may greatly increase the risk of type 2 diabetes. According to the study, by observing the habit of eating eggs and the prevalence of diabetes in adults in China, it is considered that eating 1 egg every day will increase the risk of diabetes by 60%.

The results of this study undoubtedly cast a bombshell on diabetics. Is it that their diabetes is eaten by eggs? Can diabetics still eat eggs? Today, let's talk about this research and the fact that sugar friends eat eggs.

How did this study recently published in the British Journal of Nutrition come to the conclusion that eating eggs increases the risk of diabetes?

We can first look at the research process of this study and see how the researchers got this result. First, the study included 8,458 China adults with an average age of 50. Divide them into several groups, roughly count their egg consumption from 199 1 to 2009, and then count the incidence of diabetes among them.

Finally, it was found that the incidence of diabetes in the group with relatively low egg consumption was lower than that in the group with high egg consumption, so the incidence of diabetes was related to the egg consumption.

At first glance, there seems to be no problem. People who eat more eggs have more diabetes, so eggs can cause diabetes. In fact, this study is not rigorous. What's the main problem?

L Subjects eat other foods while eating eggs, which may interfere with the research results.

First of all, the subjects ate not only eggs, but also other foods, and the interference of other foods on the results could not be ruled out. Moreover, 199 1 year can eat an egg every day, which shows that their material conditions are also good. Foods high in fat and sugar will increase the risk of diabetes, but the author of this paper did not count the other diets of the subjects, only counted the consumption of eggs, so the conclusion is unconvincing.

L it is not convincing to count the consumption of eggs only by memory.

The research is to let the subjects recall how many eggs they ate in the past 10 years by issuing questionnaires, which is actually not accurate. First of all, the interviewees' memory may be inaccurate, and some interviewees may not fill in the questionnaire carefully.

Cholesterol is involved in the synthesis of vitamin D and various hormones, but too much cholesterol may promote the increase of blood lipids and bring some side effects of hyperlipidemia. It is true that the cholesterol in egg yolk is high. An egg of about 50 grams contains about 293 milligrams of cholesterol, so many sugar friends stay away from the yolk. Although it is rich in cholesterol, some studies have pointed out that nearly two-thirds of people in the population are not sensitive to the cholesterol contained in eggs, and their blood cholesterol level will not be greatly affected by the cholesterol ingested by eating eggs. So there is absolutely no need to limit this highly nutritious food.

It is suggested that diabetic patients eat 1 egg every day, and the whole egg is more nutritious without discarding the yolk.

Eggs are rich in vitamin B and other trace elements, which can be called the "protein" champion to supplement protein. Not only is the content of high-quality protein very high, but it is also easily absorbed by human body. Most importantly, eggs are very easy to get, cost-effective, and there are many cooking methods. They are the mainstay of protein at our dinner table.