"Yolk mat khao," says a relative.

Is egg good for diabetes? We read the trials.

Read the guide

Peel one boiled egg

About 6 g

of protein

And under half a gram of carbohydrate: almost nothing that turns into blood glucose.

What one egg adds

Diabetes or prediabetes

12

eggs a week, for up to a year

No difference in blood sugar or blood fats against fewer than 2 a week. The trials ran in Australia and the US.

The trials

"But I read eggs raise diabetes risk."

One US study of doctors and women health professionals saw it at 7 or more eggs a week. A link, not a cause.

The cohort studies

Then 16 studies were pooled

No overall link for an egg a day

The link showed in US studies, not in European or Asian ones.

The pooled result

Yolk mat khao?

A heart question, not a sugar one.

Heart disease, high LDL or on cholesterol medicine? Ask your doctor. If not, Indian guidelines give no reason to drop it.

The yolk

How many eggs a day, then?

Every page gives a different number. The article shows which study each one comes from.

Read the full article

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