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To consume seven eggs per week and more would double the risk of death among the diabetics, compared to those that do not eat anymore of some one per week, according to American researchers.

The risk of heart attack would also be more elevated at the diabétiques2 big consumers of eggs. And even from an egg per week, the risks of death and heart attack increase for people affected by diabetes. These results maintain themselves after having put side of other factors of risk as the lack of exercise, the tobacco addiction and a consumption of fibers and vegetables little elevated.

News are better for the people who do not suffer from diabetes. They could consume until six eggs per week, without increased risk of death or heart attack. on the other hand, to seven eggs and more, the risks of death would increase 23%. A modest result, but meaningful, underline the researchers.

More than 21 000 American physicians have been followed during 20 years for this survey.

To avoid the yellows of eggs

Réjeanne Gougeon, searcher in nutrition in the center of the sciences and nutrition of the food of McGill, takes this survey seriously. "If I was a diabetic man, I would only" make myself some omelets with the whites, she / it counsels. "There are some kindness to consume some eggs, but there are maybe less kindness to consume some" too much, she / it adds.

On the other hand, one already knows that the absorption of cholesterol is among the superior of type 1 diabetics, but that has not been demonstrated for the of type 2 diabetes, it makes notice. The researchers did not make the distinction between the diabetes of type 1 and type 2. One can presume however, as he / it is advanced in the editorial of the American Newspaper of Clinical Nutrition2, that the majority of the diabetics of the survey is reached of the of type 2 diabetes. The type 1 diabetes of key 10% of the diabetics and the type 2, 90% .3

The food cholesterol of the eggs could cause a profile more ominous blood lipid among the diabetics, thus contributory to the atherosclerosis, advance the authors of the survey.

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