Effect of a high-egg diet on cardiometabolic risk factors in people with type 2 diabetes

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Abstract

Background

Some country guidelines recommend that people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) limit their consumption of eggs and cholesterol. Our previously published 3-mo weight-maintenance study showed that a high-egg (≥12 eggs/wk) diet compared with a low-egg diet (<2 eggs/wk) did not have adverse effects on cardiometabolic risk factors in adults with T2D.

Objective

The current study follows the previously published 3-mo weight-maintenance study and assessed the effects of the high-egg compared with the low-egg diets as part of a 3-mo weight-loss period, followed by a 6-mo follow-up period for a total duration of 12 mo.

Design

Participants with prediabetes or T2D (n = 128) were prescribed a 3-mo daily energy restriction of 2.1 MJ and a macronutrient-matched diet and instructed on specific types and quantities of foods to be consumed, with an emphasis on replacing saturated fats with monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Participants were followed up at the 9- and 12-mo visits.

Results

From 3 to 12 mo the weight loss was similar (high-egg compared with low-egg diets: −3.1 ± 6.3 compared with −3.1 ± 5.2 kg; P = 0.48). There were no differences between groups in glycemia (plasma glucose, glycated hemoglobin, 1,5-anhydroglucitol), traditional serum lipids, markers of inflammation [high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, interleukin 6, soluble E-selectin (sE-Selectin)], oxidative stress (F2-isoprostanes), or adiponectin from 3 to 12 mo or from 0 to 12 mo.

Conclusions

People with prediabetes or T2D who consumed a 3-mo high-egg weight-loss diet with a 6-mo follow-up exhibited no adverse changes in cardiometabolic markers compared with those who consumed a low-egg weight-loss diet. A healthy diet based on population guidelines and including more eggs than currently recommended by some countries may be safely consumed. This trial is registered at anzctr.org.au/ as ACTRN12612001266853.

[Activity2004 Administrator]

Very interesting and great information on eggs.

[Activity2004 Administrator]

What do you have with the eggs?

[Activity2004 Administrator]

Each meal?

[Activity2004 Administrator]

What do you have with the second set of eggs?

[Activity2004 Administrator]

I have 2 hard boiled eggs for breakfast every morning and a Greek yogurt.

[Hidden]

4 eggs in breakfast and 2 at dinner

If lucky then 2 more at lunch

Lipids are darn normal.

[Activity2004 Administrator in reply to Hidden]

Sounds great to me!😀👍

[cure Administrator in reply to Hidden]

It is proven that dietary cholesterol has very minimum impact on serum cholesterol... Most of the serum cholesterol is manufactured by liver..

And therefore dyslipidemia is sign of impaired liver health. It has got nothing to do with diet.

[dhini in reply to cure]

Confused!

triglycerides seems to have direct correlation with liver. And egg yolks has considerable amount of it . So how come?

[cure Administrator]

Wonderful post Hidden

[Dini297]

Fructose and liver? Thats shocking!!