Eggs Are OK For Your Heart

By: Jean Carper

If you're avoiding eggs because you think they'll raise your cholesterol, stop it. Revisionist science says the anti-egg crusade was a mistake.

In the 1960s, doctors thought cholesterol in food clogged arteries and that egg yolks were prime villains. But just because eggs themselves are high in cholesterol doesn't mean they raise your blood cholesterol. That idea has bitten the dust, says Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D., in "Harvard Health Letter." Research shows people who eat an egg a day are no more likely to have heart disease than those who eat eggs less than once a week, he says. "The cholesterol in food doesn't affect the levels in your blood all that much," Komaroff says. "My wife and I have eggs several times a week--guilt-free!" Another high-cholesterol food that does not raise your blood cholesterol: shrimp.

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