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Single food focus dietary guidance: lessons learned from an economic analysis of egg consumption
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 04/17/09
Schmier JK et al. - The study evaluating the economic impact of egg consumption suggests that public health campaigns promoting limiting egg consumption as a means to reduce CHD risk would not be cost-effective from a societal perspective when other benefits are considered. Public health intervention that focuses on a single dietary constituent, and foods that are high in that constituent, may lead to unintended consequences of removing other beneficial constituents and the net effect may not be in its totality a desirable public health outcome. As newer data become available, the model should be updated.
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