{"id":255342,"date":"2018-05-22T08:26:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T12:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=255342"},"modified":"2020-08-12T08:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T12:31:55","slug":"eating-an-egg-a-day-could-protect-against-strokes-and-coronary-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/eating-an-egg-a-day-could-protect-against-strokes-and-coronary-heart-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating an egg a day could protect against strokes and coronary heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>I eat two eggs almost raw every morning\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A nine-year study found reduced levels of heart disease in people who eat an egg a day on average.<\/p>\n<p>An advertising campaign from the 1950s advising people to &#8220;go to work on an egg&#8221; was thoroughly good advice, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>The study of more than 400,000 people in China suggests that an egg a day may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p>It found that daily consumers had lower rates of strokes and heart disease when compared to those who did not eat eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Peking University Health Science Centre monitored 416,213 people over a period of nine years.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the study, 13.1% of participants reported daily consumption of eggs and 9.1% said they never or rarely ate them.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, reported in the journal Heart, found those who ate up to one a day had a 26% lower risk of haemorrhagic stroke, 28% lower risk of haemorrhagic stroke death and an 18% lower risk of cardiovascular<br \/>\ndisease death.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a 12% reduction in the risk of ischaemic heart disease, or coronary heart disease, in those consuming an estimated 5.32 eggs a week compared to those eating around two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/eating-an-egg-a-day-could-protect-against-strokes-and-coronary-heart-disease-11381347?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/eating-an-egg-a-day-could-protect-against-strokes-and-coronary-heart-disease-11381347?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: I eat two eggs almost raw every morning\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":255343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}