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Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

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Re: Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

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Cancer is also inversely correlated with alzheimer's. Phrased another way, egg consumption is correlated with cancer.

Not necessarily. Looking before crossing the street is inversely correlated with getting hit by a truck. Getting trucked is inversely correlated with getting mauled by a lion (most places with wild lions are light on road traffic). Doesn't mean that looking both ways will increase your odds of becoming lion chow though.

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Re: Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

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Quality of this study aside, and n of 1 here, my own state of mind, clarity of thought, and sleep are all noticeably better when I'm eating 2 or 3 eggs a day, 3 to 5 days a week. (I might go 7 days, but an independent value placed on dietary variety prevents that--perhaps foolishly when I notice what I'm eating on off days instead of the eggs.) Regardless, this whole eggs-are-evil thing has probably done more to harm…

Do you think the eggs are causing the better sleep, or are you more likely to have the energy to make eggs in the morning if you’d had a good night’s sleep?

Re: Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

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Why would having alzheimer's reduce people's desire to eat eggs?

I know you’re joking, but possible causal path here: People with Alzheimer’s lose ability to use stove -> eat simpler less involved breakfasts -> eats less eggs

Re: Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

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Why would having alzheimer's reduce people's desire to eat eggs?

I know you’re joking, but possible causal path here: People with Alzheimer’s lose ability to use stove -> eat simpler less involved breakfasts -> eats less eggs

You can make eggs in a microwave (critically so long as you don't do it in the shell)

Re: Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adventists are okay with meat as long as it’s kosher generally. I think the bigger factor is that they’re teetotalers. My data points, though: two of my vegetarian teetotaling Adventist family members died of Alzheimer’s. The lifestyle is clearly not a cheat code for defeating dementia.

I guess I gotta be the one to ask -- so do you recall if they ate eggs ?

They do. These days generally the main prohibition is pig derived products, but plenty of SDAs still choose to be vegetarian. I'm not an SDA, but my daughter is.

Re: Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know you’re joking, but possible causal path here: People with Alzheimer’s lose ability to use stove -> eat simpler less involved breakfasts -> eats less eggs

You can make eggs in a microwave (critically so long as you don't do it in the shell)

You can, but people don't as a general rule. It's a traditional food prepared traditionally. And importantly, another thing early Alzheimers cases don't do is learn new cooking hacks.

Re: Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

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post #20

Quality of this study aside, and n of 1 here, my own state of mind, clarity of thought, and sleep are all noticeably better when I'm eating 2 or 3 eggs a day, 3 to 5 days a week. (I might go 7 days, but an independent value placed on dietary variety prevents that--perhaps foolishly when I notice what I'm eating on off days instead of the eggs.) Regardless, this whole eggs-are-evil thing has probably done more to harm…

Do you think the eggs are causing the better sleep, or are you more likely to have the energy to make eggs in the morning if you’d had a good night’s sleep?

It seems the eggs improve the sleep, because after poor sleep, eggs the following day seem to have an effect on breaking the poor-sleep doom loop (which is: poor sleep elevates cortisol, adrenaline, heart rate, junk-food cravings, and the need for caffeine--all of which contribute to another night of bad sleep). Not sure if it's the choline, which eggs have a lot of, or the egg-generated satiety that helps prevent eating too much. I think it may be the choline because when I'm otherwise eating high-choline foods such as red meat, my sleep is also better.

Re: Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

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post #20

Quality of this study aside, and n of 1 here, my own state of mind, clarity of thought, and sleep are all noticeably better when I'm eating 2 or 3 eggs a day, 3 to 5 days a week. (I might go 7 days, but an independent value placed on dietary variety prevents that--perhaps foolishly when I notice what I'm eating on off days instead of the eggs.) Regardless, this whole eggs-are-evil thing has probably done more to harm…

Given that a great number of Westerns are overweight, it's probably appropriate for them to act as though "fat is evil" due to calorie density. Plus: saturated fat should be avoided; this is another thing Westerners are likely to be getting too much of.

Re: Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

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I’m copying this comment from discussion two months ago > Caveat: > > Funding [...] The analyses in this study were supported by an investigator-initiated grant from the American Egg Board. [...]

So one of those egg council creeps got to you too huh?
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