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Fifty years ago it was believed that the cholesterol in eggs directly impacted heart health and could lead to cardiovascular disease. As our ability to research how nutrition impacts our body we have been able to better understand how cholesterol works and what it affects. It has been found that eating cholesterol from eggs has very little impact on the cholesterol in our blood stream and therefore very little impact on our heart health.
Research supports that eating an “egg a day” may actually support overall health. Eggs provide several important nutrients like choline, contain a lot of protein, and are easy to cook and eat with minimal costs. Eggs have also been shown to increase satiety, or to suppress your appetite, and may therefore reduce your risk for overeating and obesity.

McNamara DJ. Conference on ‘dietary strategies for the management of cardiovascular risk’ Dietary cholesterol, heart disease risk and cognitive dissonance. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. December 2012.

http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPNS%2FS0029665113003844a.pdf&code=3583f020a557540cb5d589f01343f27c

Rong Y, Chen L, Zhu T, Song Y, Yu M, Shan Z, Sands A, Hu FB, Liu L. Egg consumption and risk of coronary heart disease and strok: dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. BMJ. 346:e8539.2013.

http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.e8539.pdf%2Bhtml

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