Eggs and Health Promotion

This single, convenient reference focuses on current scientific data covering:

• The influence of eggs on health and disease risk factors.


• The emergence of modified eggs-eggs from specially fed chickens used to produce and deliver drugs, nutrients, a nd immunotherapies to patients.


• The use of eggs to directly prevent or treat diseases.

Written by well-known and highly respected scientists, is filled with useful information for health practitioners, researchers, oncologists, nutritional therapists, pharmacologists, dietitians, comercial egg producers, and health conscious general public.