Representatives of the American Egg Board's Egg Nutrition Center as well as independent scientists say that a just-released Japanese study on eggs and mortality is not scientifically sound because the subset of women studied was too small to deliver accurate data.
In addition, experts say that the results of the study, which claimed that women who ate two or more eggs a day were more likely to die than women who ate less eggs, are misleading because just as many women died in the group who ate the least amount of eggs as did among those who ate the most eggs.
What's more, the study does not account for almost 50% of the causes of death of the study participants who were reported more likely to die of "any cause" -- including old age, smoking, complications from obesity, among an assortment of other factors (i.e., getting hit by a car) that can lead to one's demise. Specifically, experts point to the following as examples of sloppy and misleading research findings: