Tip Eat 4 Per Week to Improve Glucose Metabolism Search Skip to content Menu Menu follow us Store Articles Community Loyal-T Club Loyal-T Points Rewards Subscribe to Save Search Search The World s Trusted Source & Community for Elite Fitness Diet & Fat LossEating Tip Eat 4 Per Week to Improve Glucose Metabolism This simple diet adjustment may reduce your risk of getting type-2 diabetes by 37 percent by Chris Shugart July 21, 2017June 29, 2022 Tags Diet Strategy, Feeding the Ideal Body, Nutrition & Supplements, Tips The Completely Preventable Disease Type-2 diabetes affects around 24 million Americans, maybe more if you count the number of people who have it but don't know it yet. And about 86 million more have prediabetes: high blood glucose levels but not high enough yet to get the full diagnoses. Most with prediabetes will get full-blown type-2 diabetes within 10 years. Sad, really. Actually, it's pretty pathetic since prediabetes and type-2 diabetes are both preventable and curable. All you have to do is not be fat, move around more, and stop eating crap. All completely within your control. Still, most of us have close relatives or friends who are on their way to developing type-2 diabetes, and it's probably not a good idea to call your mom or dad "pathetic" to their faces. So what can we do for them? What tiny bit of advice can we offer that would help? A new study is giving us an idea. According to research out of Finland, men who ate four whole eggs per week had a 37 percent lower risk of type-2 diabetes than men who only ate one egg or less per week. (More than four eggs per week didn't seem to increase the positive effects.) This was associated with eggs' beneficial nutrients that positively affect glucose metabolism and help with inflammation. The study followed 2300 men for almost 20 years, and things like activity levels smoking, etc. were factored in. The researchers noted that many people avoid whole eggs because of their cholesterol content. Most progressive doctors and researchers are already backing away from the "all cholesterol is evil" mantra, noting that there's very little correlation between cholesterol intake and bad cholesterol in your blood. Also, we need dietary cholesterol for optimal testosterone production. Researchers also noted that the overall health effects of foods are difficult to anticipate based on just one of its nutrients, like cholesterol. In other words, throwing out the yolks to avoid one "bad" thing may mean you're missing out on lots of other good things. So if you know one of those 86 million people with prediabetes, tell them to at least have four whole eggs per week. And maybe move around some more. Virtanen JK et al. Egg consumption and risk of incident type 2 diabetes in men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2015 May;101(5):1088-96. PubMed. Get The T Nation Newsletters Don' t Miss Out Expert Insights To Get Stronger, Gain Muscle Faster, And Take Your Lifting To The Next Level related posts Eating Is Bread Healthy You May be Surprised People have demonized bread for years, but they need to find another scapegoat. Bread can be healthy and nutritionally important. Here's why. Dietary Myth Busting, Nutrition & Supplements TC Luoma March 16 Eating Can This Natural Food Substance Fight Viruses Phytochemicals can treat a number of human diseases, possibly even those caused by viruses. Here's the science. Nutrition & Supplements, Super Health TC Luoma November 26 Sex & Hormones Tip Take This Vitamin for Better Sex For females, sex drive, arousal, and O's all get better with this vitamin. Feeding the Ideal Body, Nutrition & Supplements, Testosterone Optimization, Tips, Vitamin D TC Luoma December 22 Diet & Fat Loss Skin Deep Nutrition and Good Skin Whether you're a pock-marked adolescent or a 35-year-old who prematurely looks like an old catcher's mitt, the health of your skin is probably important to you. Dr. Alan Logan knows how to use nutrition to fix you up. Feeding the Ideal Body, Nutrition & Supplements John Berardi, PhD September 27