SCIENTISTS believe they have found a clear link between eggs and prostate cancer.
Researchers say men who consume three eggs a week could be 81% more likely to develop the condition.
On average British people have three-and-a-half eggs each week.
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Experts think the damage may be done by the high amounts of cholesterol or a nutrient called choline which are found in the food.
The report by the researchers said: “Men who consumed two-and-a-half eggs or more a week had an 81% increased risk of lethal prostate cancer compared to men who consumed less than half an egg a week. Although additional studies are needed, caution in egg intake may be warranted for adult men.”
It added that choline and cholesterol are “highly concentrated in prostate cancer cells”.
The team at Harvard Medical School in Boston studied the eating habits of 27,000 healthy men over a 14-year period. The scientists found no significant links between meat and cancer.
Bosses at the Prostate Cancer Charity point out that men who ate the most eggs in the study were also more likely to smoke, be overweight, take less exercise and have a poor diet – all risk factors for the disease which kills 10,000 in the UK annually.
The British Egg Information Service said the study, which appeared in the journal Cancer Prevention Research, was flawed as the number of prostate cancer deaths – 199 – was too small to make firm conclusions.
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Researchers say men who consume three eggs a week could be 81% more likely to develop the condition.
On average British people have three-and-a-half eggs each week.
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Experts think the damage may be done by the high amounts of cholesterol or a nutrient called choline which are found in the food.
The report by the researchers said: “Men who consumed two-and-a-half eggs or more a week had an 81% increased risk of lethal prostate cancer compared to men who consumed less than half an egg a week. Although additional studies are needed, caution in egg intake may be warranted for adult men.”
It added that choline and cholesterol are “highly concentrated in prostate cancer cells”.
The team at Harvard Medical School in Boston studied the eating habits of 27,000 healthy men over a 14-year period. The scientists found no significant links between meat and cancer.
Bosses at the Prostate Cancer Charity point out that men who ate the most eggs in the study were also more likely to smoke, be overweight, take less exercise and have a poor diet – all risk factors for the disease which kills 10,000 in the UK annually.
The British Egg Information Service said the study, which appeared in the journal Cancer Prevention Research, was flawed as the number of prostate cancer deaths – 199 – was too small to make firm conclusions.
- DIABETES sufferers are 20% more at risk of rectal cancer and 38% more likely to develop colon cancer, reports California University.
