Government propaganda to fight inflation https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/06/24/137400235/lbj-...
"When egg prices rose in the spring of 1966 and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told him that not much could be done, Johnson had the Surgeon General issue alerts as to the hazards of cholesterol in eggs."
There's actually no healthier food than eggs
Re:Thoughts on the potato diet
by cableshaft on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:48AM
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These are much newer references than 1966. The first reference is for a Chinese study (China, not US) published in 2020.
"Compared with group 1 (30·7 %, low baseline intake and slight increase), both group 2 (62·2 %, medium baseline intake and increase) and group 3 (7·1 %, high baseline intake and decrease) were associated with an increased OR for diabetes. The results suggested that higher egg consumption was positively associated with the risk of diabetes in Chinese adults."
Here's the publication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33028452/
https://www.pcrm.org/news/health-nutrition/egg-consumption-i...
"The authors note results from a recent meta-analysis and data from the Physicians' Health Study and Women’s Health Study showed an increased risk for diabetes of up to 77% with seven or more eggs consumed per week."