Boy, do I love my omelets on the weekends.  There’s nothing better than an omelet - made with real eggs, instead of that egg substitute, which is ok but just doesn’t have the same flavor and texture as real eggs sometimes.  Add in some cheese, onions and another big diet no no, bacon, and you’ve got yourself a little slice of heaven on earth for breakfast.  Of course, there’s a load of sodium fat and cholesterol, especially if you used the whole egg yolk, but who’s counting? 

Well, you should be, especially if you’re a middle aged male.  Apparently studies have shown a link between the consumption of seven or more eggs per week in men and a higher death rate.  Now, seven eggs may not seem like much, but that means you’d be eating two eggs at least for 3 days or more a week, and it should be easy to cut this way back if this is your current practice.  You may need to find a substitute for your breakfasts, or other foods that you may cook with eggs in them, if you want to comply with this new one.

While the study found a definite correlation between high egg consumption in middle aged men and earlier death rates, especially in men who were diabetic who should be able to eat eggs safely, it did not address at all why the eggs may cause earlier death, in other words, why nutritionally they have been labeled as “ok” for consumption.

For some reason they cut off at the odd number of seven, but if you were to eat up to six eggs per week you supposedly, as a man, did not have this higher chance of an early death.  Wow - comforting, right?  Not really.  Hopefully the next step in this study will be to determine what exactly is it in eggs that causes this strange correlation, and why is it just going over six eggs that causes them to suddenly become a danger to your longevity?