Nutrition recommendations have lifted the cloud over eggs and the thinking now is that an egg a day is OK.

For much of the past 40 years the public has been warned away from eggs because of the risk of heart disease. Unhealthy serum cholesterol levels have, after all, been linked to increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and eggs are relatively high in dietary cholesterol.

The food police were wrong? Science isn’t perfect? Oy!

Some research has even questioned the connection between egg consumption and cardiovascular disease. A study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition showed that risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women did not increase with increasing egg consumption. In fact, it showed quite the opposite. From their findings of analyzing more than 27,000 subjects, they indicated that the egg consumers actually had lower serum cholesterol levels than those subjects who abstained from eggs.

The Harvard School of Public Health’s research showed the dietary cholesterol in eggs does not have a negative effect on blood cholesterol levels of healthy people. This and numerous other studies have shown there is no link between eating eggs and a higher risk of heart disease or stroke for healthy adults. Some recent studies have even shown that HDL (good) cholesterol increased when people ate an egg-supplemented diet.

* This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.
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