A team from the University of California-San Diego has discovered that older women who eat eggs each week may experience less memory loss and less decline in their executive brain functions over time. This is the latest research to suggest that eggs, a food often criticized for their high cholesterol content, could actually benefit cognitive health among certain groups.
The study, published in the journal Nutrients, examined a group of 890 adults over the age of 55 from the Rancho Bernardo study in California. The participants kept track of their egg consumption from 1988 to 1991. They also underwent a series of cognitive tests during that time and once again between 1992 and 1996, measuring their global cognition, executive function, and semantic memory.
When the researchers analyzed the data by sex, they found that among women, those who ate more eggs each week experienced less decline in category fluency — a test of verbal abilities and executive function:
https://studyfinds.org/an-egg-a-day-womans-brain/
No wonder they vilified eggs and burned poultry farms.
The multiple vectors for dis-ease is quite remarkable when you think if it.
Good point, Melian.
Wondering, though, about this one sentence:
Overall, researchers found that the magic number for older women appears to be five eggs per week. In other words, an egg a day may keep cognitive decline away.
***
Um, speaking of cognitive decline, wouldn’t an egg a day add up to seven per week? Hmmm....
3 eggs/day for me.
Yes, eggs are really good for you, despite the decades of cholesterol propaganda which has been thoroughly refuted since at least 1997 when Kilmer S. McCully published his first book for laymen explaining that atherosclerosis is due to to faulty homocysteine metabolism and has little or nothing to do with dietary cholesterol.
So is salt good for you. Most people don’t get enough salt, which is the key to hydration.
The medical/pharma/food industry has been blood-sucking the American People long enough.
Godspeed RFK Jr.