Eggs in breakfast are associated with 81% greater
risk of 'life-threatening' prostate cancer
Although breakfast is frequently referred to as the "most important meal of the day," what you eat does matter. A very debatable outcome from one study revealed that a filling breakfast staple was linked to an 81 percent increased chance of "lethal" prostate cancer.
Research occasionally contradicts conventional thinking. This
confusing result comes from a study published in the Cancer Prevention Research
journal. The contentious research links eating eggs to a dramatically increased
chance of "lethal" prostate cancer. The Osher Center for Integrative
Health at the University of California, San Francisco, summarised the findings
in a paper.
Compared to males who consumed less than 0.5 eggs per week, healthy
men who consumed 2.5 or more eggs per week had an 81 percent higher risk of
deadly prostate cancer, according to prospective research published in the
journal Cancer Prevention Research.
The scientists postulated that this was caused by the eggs' high
concentration of choline and cholesterol, both of which are found in high
concentrations in prostate cancer cells.
According to the study, eating eggs may boost a healthy man's chance of acquiring deadly prostate cancer.
All animal meals include choline, a vitamin, but eggs have the
highest concentration—250 mg per egg.
However, the same link has been discovered in other investigations.
According to a meta-analysis from 2015, those who consume the most eggs per
week—more than five—have a slightly higher chance of developing breast,
ovarian, and prostate cancers than people who consume the fewest eggs.
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