Netflix film What The Health says eating eggs as bad as smoking quoting : Yahoo News
The film claims eggs are unhealthy. Health professionals have slammed a Netflix documentary that encourages people to ditch animal food products and eat vegan, claiming eating one egg a day is as bad as smoking five cigarettes. Alexandra Freeman from Cambridge University told The Times the claim about eggs being as bad as smoking cigarettes was sourced to an "extremely controversial paper". Cancer researcher Alice Howarth said while the film has a good message, she believes the film doesn't have much evidence backing up the claims. Such associations breach the trust of both health professionals who work in their fields and the general public," she told news.com.au.
The film's website does cite sources for each of its claims, but these have found challenge within the scientific community. Leonardo DiCaprio helped persuade Netflix to release the film with him acting as executive producer, with Joaquin Phoenix also on board as executive producer. Alexandra Freeman, executive director of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge University, told The Times that the claims about eggs are sourced from an "extremely controversial paper", for example. The project comes from filmmakers Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn, famous for their 2014 documentary Cowspiracy, and What the Health has seen some major celebrity support. "What the Health overwhelms the viewer with scaremongering 'facts' which do not hold up to scientific investigation."
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The film's website does cite sources for each of its claims, but these have found challenge within the scientific community. Leonardo DiCaprio helped persuade Netflix to release the film with him acting as executive producer, with Joaquin Phoenix also on board as executive producer. Alexandra Freeman, executive director of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge University, told The Times that the claims about eggs are sourced from an "extremely controversial paper", for example. The project comes from filmmakers Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn, famous for their 2014 documentary Cowspiracy, and What the Health has seen some major celebrity support. "What the Health overwhelms the viewer with scaremongering 'facts' which do not hold up to scientific investigation."
Doco's claim eating eggs as bad as smoking cigarettes debunked
Health professionals have slammed a film that claims eating eggs is as bad as smoking cigarettes. "There is absolutely inadequate data to suggest, by any means, that eating one egg per day is the equivalent of smoking 5 cigarettes daily", Ms Mattinson said. The Netflix documentary What The Health says eating one egg a day is as bad as smoking five cigarettes a day, and that one serving of processed meat a day increases the risk of developing diabetes by 51 percent. The anti-egg claim is among What The Health's most contentious, and is rejected by nutrition expert and former research biochemist Robb Wolf. He notes that the bold claim that eating an egg a day is equivalent to smoking five cigarettes isn't backed up with any evidence at all, and is among "remarkable claims" made in the film "with at best paltry support".collected by :Lucy William
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