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It is a common trope that eggs are bad for cardiovascular health because they're high in cholesterol, despite this being shown to be false a number of times over.

A good question is thus how to turn around an urban myth once it's already become commonplace?

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It's been known for a long time that consumption of cholesterol doesn't directly raise blood cholesterol. The dangers of high cholesterol were first raised to the public consciousness in the 90s which is around when the "eggs may be bad for you" hit it's peak. It wasn't until years later that the causes of high cholesterol were better understood and the advice was refined. That's around the time that trans fat became the real villain and that advice has mostly stood up to scrutiny for a while now.

Maybe explain to people what Cholesterol is, it delivers essential materials to cells. That's the hypothesis for why you find high cholesterol in the blood of those with heart or coronary disease, those cells are damaged and need resupply.

Serve as an example? I eat four eggs a day.

I eat at least two a day, virtually everyday...

...prepared with zero oil or butter on a ceramic non-stick pan.

My cholesterol levels are great. My wife eats the same diet (except she doesn't order dinner at work like I do) and her cholesterol levels are ridiculously good.

It turns out that there is absolutely nothing wrong with saturated fat, never was. Fat is necessary in human diet.

Cholesterol levels don't tell you much unless you have heart disease.

Same, good egg to you my friend.

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