Hmm. I appear to have spoken too soon. There's a huge egg lobby to pay for as much crap science as you like, which gives me caution when browsing a web page at Purdue University (http://ag.ansc.purdue.edu/ispa/news/Articles/eggcholest.html), for the love of Pete - need we even ask where their bias lies? Hit the MEMBERSHIP button on that page to see how you can join the International Poultry Society - but there's a pretty good study out there with 15000 subjects showing no relation between egg intake and blood cholesterol levels, and I remember the 1999 NEJM study about 7 eggs per week not raising the amount of stroke.
Your body needs about 2000-2500 mg of cholesterol a day, but can get 1825 mg or so of that from re-absorption of pre-used cholesterol. Cholesterol's in everything you eat - it's part of cell membranes - so eating an egg gives ya a real goose in the old cholesterol tank. It appears, however, that lecithin in eggs may reduce cholesterol absorption.
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Date: 2003-04-15 06:29 pm (UTC)Your body needs about 2000-2500 mg of cholesterol a day, but can get 1825 mg or so of that from re-absorption of pre-used cholesterol. Cholesterol's in everything you eat - it's part of cell membranes - so eating an egg gives ya a real goose in the old cholesterol tank. It appears, however, that lecithin in eggs may reduce cholesterol absorption.