LET’S EAT: Egg a day OK
February 05, 2020 • 1 min read
-- New study dispels old school nutritional guidance
Sunny side up, over easy, or lightly poached swimming in hollandaise sauce, there’s a lot to love about the protein-packed egg.
But our relationship with eggs hasn’t always been perfectly hard boiled, with lingering worries that the hit of cholesterol and saturated fat packed into those sunshine yellow yokes raises the risk of heart disease.
One egg yolk contains around 185 milligrams of cholesterol – more than half of the 300mg daily amount of cholesterol specified in US dietary guidelines.
Well, good news egg lovers
A new study suggests that eating one egg a day is fine for most people, even those with a history of heart disease.
Researchers studied 177,000 people to identify associations between diet and cardiovascular health.
Turns out eating one egg a day won’t do you any harm, according to Mahshid Dehghan, the study’s first author and a researcher with the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) at McMaster University.
“Moderate egg intake, which is about one egg per day in most people, does not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease or mortality even if people have a history of cardiovascular disease or diabetes,” she said.
Our bodies deserve more credit than we give them for curbing the production of cholesterol as dietary cholesterol increases.
Omelette, anyone?