Eggs and the advice of your MD

“I honestly can’t believe we are spending valuable molecules of brain ATP to have this conversation again,” writes Dr. Ethan Weiss, a cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who's a co-founder of a startup related to a high-fat diet. “If someone wants to do it, then do it right. Otherwise, let’s stop talking about these observational nutritional epi studies once and for all.”

Weiss points to a JAMA paper on the limitations of nutritional observational studies by John P. A. Ioannidis, the Stanford skeptic. Ioannidis noted that if one believes estimates from these studies, eating 12 hazelnuts daily would prolong life by 12 years, as would drinking three cups of coffee daily. Eating a single mandarin orange daily would lead to five additional years of life. Conversely, consuming one egg daily would reduce life expectancy six years, and adding two slices of bacon would shorten life for a decade. “Could these results possibly be true?” Ioannidis wrote. 

So maybe it’s OK to eat the eggs if you add a hazelnut coffee?