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Eggs significantly increased growth and reduced stunting by 47 percent in young children, finds a new study from a leading expert on child nutrition at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. This was a much greater effect than had been shown in previous studies.

"Eggs can be affordable and easily accessible," said Lora Iannotti, lead author of the study.

"They are also a good source of nutrients for growth and development in young children," she said. "Eggs have the potential to contribute to reduced growth stunting around the world."

The study, "Eggs in Complementary Feeding and Growth," was published online June 6 in the journal Pediatrics.

Iannotti and her co-authors conducted a randomized, controlled trial in Ecuador in 2015. Children ages 6-9 months were randomly assigned to be given one egg per day for 6 months, versus a control group, which did not receive eggs.

Eggs were shown to increase standardized length-for-age score and weight-for-age score. Models indicated a reduced prevalence of stunting by 47 percent and underweight by 74 percent. Children in the treatment group had higher dietary intakes of eggs and reduced intake of sugar-sweetened foods compared to control.

"We were surprised by just how effective this intervention proved to be," Iannotti said. "The size of the effect was 0.63 compared to the 0.39 global average."

Eggs are a complete food, safely packaged and arguably more accessible in resource-poor populations than other complementary foods, specifically fortified foods, she said.

"Our study carefully monitored allergic reactions to eggs, yet no incidents were observed or reported by caregivers during the weekly home visits," Iannotti said. "Eggs seem to be a viable and recommended source of nutrition for children in developing countries."




https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas...70607085615.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28588101
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Finely minced egg was a standard baby food when I was little. Still love deviled eggs.
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When my children were babies and toddlers scrambled eggs were an almost daily part of their diet.

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Oh! A friend of mine was involved in running this study, it is so great to see that it's been released at last!

The group who did the study have a FB page here:
https://www.facebook.com/lulunproject/

And they posted this update back in April:
https://www.facebook.com/lulunproje...708252652695168

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The major findings of Lulun Project, that the introduction of eggs into the diet of children from 6 to 9 months of age provides substantial nutritional benefits, improves growth and does not represent a risk of allegries, has been accepted by the Ministry of Health and is the basis for changing the recommendation in the public health system throughout the country.

Rock on, Ecuador!
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Oh! A friend of mine was involved in running this study, it is so great to see that it's been released at last!

For me the most interesting part was this (emphasis mine):

Rock on, Ecuador!


That is fantastic.

When I was a child there was an emphasis on "good protein." And how much children need it. I see parents avoiding meat like it's poison and that makes me so sad.
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It does make sense that something made to make a baby chick develop completely would also have most everything a human baby needs to develop. A single egg had so much impact though!
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With the anti-sat-fat, anti-cholesterol dogma over the last ~20 yrs, there is probably a generation of North Americans stunted by false government ideology. Luckily I reached my full height before this nonsense started.
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With the anti-sat-fat, anti-cholesterol dogma over the last ~20 yrs, there is probably a generation of North Americans stunted by false government ideology. Luckily I reached my full height before this nonsense started.


Likewise. Now, there are photos of me at one year old, clutching a beachball, and the dimensions are ridiculously similar but in farm country a "good eater" is something for all parents to strive for at that time.
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And there are still 'nutritionists' who tell people that it's OK to eat an egg as long as you throw away the yolk.
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Eggs significantly increased growth and reduced stunting by 47 percent in young children


How do they decide that one particular food increased growth? My kids didn't lack for protein, but my son was so short until he hit puberty that well-meaning friends suggested he should be given growth hormones.

I have no problem with eggs being promoted as a good source of protein - I love them & eat them every single day - but I eat a lot of other things, too. Perhaps if the children in the study were malnourished, then one egg a day would be better. But how about one hamburger patty or other serving of meat?
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How do they decide that one particular food increased growth?


They tested it. It was a controlled trial, not an observational study. One group got an egg a day, the other didn't. That was the only variable.
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They tested it. It was a controlled trial, not an observational study. One group got an egg a day, the other didn't. That was the only variable.


Still other variables that they couldn't control - other foods (unless these kids were in an orphanage or hospital) & genes. Probably other things that I can't think of right now. Mainly I'm critical of it because I'm leery of any study that concludes that there is one magical food. Had they compared it to other protein sources, I wouldn't be quite as critical.
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OK, so we got kids who grow taller cuz of cow milk, now we got kids who grow more cuz of eggs, next we'll get kids who grow tallest and mostest cuz of uber fat ribeye at every meal. Just kidding, but it would be logical.

I have a big problem with using infants for experiments. The results sound good, but what if the intervention was exactly the same as the controls in this experiment? It would show a certain detriment to the intervention thereby making the experiment unethical by its very nature. Well, that's exactly what this experiment did - it showed a detriment to the controls intervention, because a controls is an intervention in its own right. Imagine any other comparison where there is an obvious benefit for a group - there's a concurrent obvious detriment for another group.

I have read something about that a while ago where the interventions were monitored and once a benefit was noted for one group, all groups were then put on that intervention. This then allowed an a priori unethical intervention to become ethical by virtue of discovering the detriment, stoppping it, then switching to the beneficial intervention. I still have that big problem with experiments on kids, but then maybe it was needed to establish precisely that the controls were put on a detrimental intervention outside the experiment by some standard guidelines?
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OK, so we got kids who grow taller cuz of cow milk, now we got kids who grow more cuz of eggs, next we'll get kids who grow tallest and mostest cuz of uber fat ribeye at every meal. Just kidding, but it would be logical.

I have a big problem with using infants for experiments. The results sound good, but what if the intervention was exactly the same as the controls in this experiment? It would show a certain detriment to the intervention thereby making the experiment unethical by its very nature. Well, that's exactly what this experiment did - it showed a detriment to the controls intervention, because a controls is an intervention in its own right. Imagine any other comparison where there is an obvious benefit for a group - there's a concurrent obvious detriment for another group.

I have read something about that a while ago where the interventions were monitored and once a benefit was noted for one group, all groups were then put on that intervention. This then allowed an a priori unethical intervention to become ethical by virtue of discovering the detriment, stoppping it, then switching to the beneficial intervention. I still have that big problem with experiments on kids, but then maybe it was needed to establish precisely that the controls were put on a detrimental intervention outside the experiment by some standard guidelines?


I'd say that's the case.

If they'd done the study on rodents, then despite the fact that the study showed eggs as a superior nutritious food for growth, we'd say rodent studies are fine, but rodents are not humans.

They couldn't do the study on adults, because they're past the point of vertical growth. It needed to be done on children, and the younger the better, because the younger they are, the faster they grow.

I'm just glad it's another step towards exonerating the much maligned egg - as someone mentioned earlier, eggs contain enough of all nutrients necessary to nurture a chick - there's enough nutrients there for the chick to grow and become strong enough to peck it's way out of the shell. Eggs even have vitamin D, a micronutrient which can be very difficult to come by naturally in food, since the primary sources of it these days is as a chemical addition to milk and cereal products.
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With the anti-sat-fat, anti-cholesterol dogma over the last ~20 yrs, there is probably a generation of North Americans stunted by false government ideology. Luckily I reached my full height before this nonsense started.

About 20 years ago I worked with a guy who fired his nanny over a dietary transgression in feeding his children. Her crime? She fed the kids two eggs apiece for breakfast when the dietary guidelines said that the limit should be one egg at most. I remember him trying to get me to concur with his decision to fire the nanny. I guess that he felt guilty or something. I don't remember what I said, but I do remember thinking 'are you kidding me? Fire someone for feeding you kids eggs?'
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