Women who eat eggs on a daily basis might have a higher risk of dying than other women their age, study findings suggest. Researchers in Japan found that women who consumed one or more eggs a day were more likely to die during the 14-year study than women who ate one or two eggs a week. The findings are published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Quick to respond, representatives of the American Egg Board's Egg Nutrition Center, as well as independent scientists, say that the Japanese study on eggs and mortality is not scientifically sound because the subset of women studied was too small to deliver accurate data. In addition, experts say that the results of the study are misleading, because just as many women died in the group who ate the least amount of eggs as did among those who ate the most eggs. Furthermore, the study does not account for almost 50% of the causes of death of the study participants who were reported more likely to die of "any cause" -- including old age, smoking, complications from obesity, among an assortment of other factors (i.e., getting hit by a car) that can lead to one's demise.