The humble egg seems to always get a bad rap from the cholesterol police. “Don’t eat so many eggs” they say, “you’ll raise your cholesterol levels” they claim, “too many eggs are bad for you”, they shout.

Now me personally I usually start my day with a 3 egg omelette or scrambled eggs if I can. In a normal week I probably go through at least 18 eggs which if the cholesterol police are to be believed then I’m really risking my health. But am i really?

Yes its true that the advice from Health Eggsperts (sic) was that too many eggs were indeed bad for you because they were high in cholesterol so it was thought that they must raise your blood cholesterol levels. Now at the time this was the best information available so it stands to reason that this was sound advice based on common sense. The scenario has changed however and we know that eggs do not significantly raise blood cholesterol levels as there have been numerous scientific studies done to prove this.

Even the British Heart Foundations website states

“There is currently no limit on the number of eggs that you can eat in a week. However, because the recommendation has changed over the years, it’s often a common source of confusion……as research in this area has developed, so has our understanding of how foods that contain cholesterol affect people’s heart health.” Read the rest of this entry »