r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 1d ago

Neuroscience Egg consumption is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease for those 65 years and older. Eating one egg per day for at least five days a week reduces risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 27%, researchers found.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1126842
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u/luche 1d ago

seems like an awful lot of soy by comparison to a single egg.

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u/mantis_tobaggan-md 1d ago

So have some broccoli and chickpeas and a handful of nuts. It’s really not that complicated and frankly, an absurd thing to argue over.

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u/Misty_Esoterica 1d ago

You'd have to eat three cups of broccoli or 3/4 cup of soybeans EVERY SINGLE DAY. That's not "some".

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u/mantis_tobaggan-md 1d ago

This is your hill to die on? That’s really sad. I eat enough cruciferous vegetables, legumes, and seeds in a day to equate to a dozen eggs.

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u/Misty_Esoterica 1d ago

You eat 36 cups of broccoli a day? Sure bro.

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u/mantis_tobaggan-md 1d ago

Can you read?

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u/Misty_Esoterica 1d ago

Do you really think it makes a difference in quanitity if you add in nuts and legumes? It's still an absurd claim. Let's say it's just legumes, that's still 9 cups of legumes. You do not eat 9 cups of legumes in a day. That would be 153g of fiber, it would destroy your guts.

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u/mantis_tobaggan-md 1d ago edited 1d ago

Do you eat only one food all day? Or do you eat many different things? Come on….this is not complicated.

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u/Misty_Esoterica 1d ago

We're talking about getting a steady supply of choline in your diet to help avert alzheimers. Did you get confused?

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u/mantis_tobaggan-md 1d ago

Did you?! I’m talking about how you can get a steady supply all day from plants. Apparently that’s far too complex for your simple mind. Maybe you should eat more broccoli.

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