The thought of eggs may remind someone of breakfast, muscle
builders, or maybe increase in cholesterol. Has it ever crossed your mind that
eggs can cause an increase in cancer progression? I certainly wasn’t aware of
that until I read an article by Michael Greger M.D. He explained how it’s the choline
in the egg that is causing the problem. Choline makes the production of a TMAO
compound which is toxic.
Harvard
conducted a study with men with prostate cancer. They had a group of over a
thousand men and analyzed their diet over a few years, looking to see if their
diet increased the resurgence of cancer. They found the men that consumed more
eggs had an increased risk of the resurgence of the prostate cancer. According
to the article, consuming the eggs “doubled the risk of cancer progression.”
The Harvard study concluded the choline caused an increase of inflammation. I
am not exactly sure what effect an increase of inflammation causes on cancer. I
need to research more in on that.
Choline is
also in other foods such as poultry which is actually worse than eggs. There
were also milk, liver, and fish. I do not know how much Choline they contain.
I find this
new research very interesting; however, I think there should be more research conducted
on this topic.
This is really interesting! You hear about artificially made food products that may increase your risk for cancer, but never eggs. It would be interesting to learn more about this connection and other types of cancers, also why choline is found in eggs in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThis actually makes me afraid to eat eggs now.. But it was a very good blog post! Informative and interesting at the same time! You should do a 10 page research paper on this! ;)
ReplyDeleteI don't care for eggs, but I love milk. Problems.
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