Eggs are regarded as being a fantastic source of several nutrients, including proteins, vitamins and essential fatty acids.

A recent study has claimed that eating one egg a day can drastically reduce your likelihood of developing cardiovascular disease in the future.

A team of researchers from China and the UK decided to explore the connection between frequency of egg consumption and risk of a number of heart-related diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, ischaemic stroke and major coronary events, which is when a person experience a sudden cardiac death or a heart attack.

The research group, led by Professor Liming Li and Dr Canqing Yu from the School of Public Health at Peking University Health Science Centre, analysed data from more than 400,000 adults in China aged between 30 and 79 years old.

The data, which was collected by the China Kadoorie Biobank study, originally gathered information from 512,891 adults from 10 different areas of China between 2004 and 2008.

The 416,213 participants chosen for this specific study had no prior experience of cancer, cardiovascular disease or diabetes.

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