Leona: If the average consumption of eggs in the United States were cut in half, an estimated 5, 000 lives might be saved each year  Thomas: How can that be
That would mean that if people adopt this single change in diet for ten years, the population ten years from now will be greater by 50, 000 people than it otherwise would have been
If egg consumption were reduced by more than half, the estimated number of lives saved each year could be even more than 5, 000.