Research
Mixed
High egg intake (up to 12 eggs/week) does not significantly increase cardiovascular risk, inflammatory biomarkers, or blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetic patients when part of a weight-loss diet.
You can likely include eggs in your diet. A study showed that eating up to 12 eggs a week did not worsen blood sugar or heart health markers in diabetics.
ModerateRefutesMEDIUM confidence
At the end of the study, the authors have found that a high-egg diet was not significantly associated to an increase on cardiovascular risk, inflammatory and oxidative stress biomarkers nor blood sugar levels.
Why this rating
Based on one cited RCT (Fuller et al.) with limitations noted (small sample, short duration).
Source
Unsaturated fatty acid as functional food for the treatment of Diabetes mellitus type 2
Naiane Silva Cardoso et al. · Research Society and Development · 2021
DOI 10.33448/rsd-v10i9.17231
narrative_reviewCited 6×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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