Up Close Edible Eggs
Eggs lost their breakfast staple status when nutritionists linked dietary cholesterol (the cholesterol found in foods such as meat, seafood, eggs, dairy and poultry) with a person’s overall serum cholesterol levels (the cholesterol level in your bloodstream). But new research shows that dietary cholesterol does not play as big a role in boosting cholesterol levels as previously thought. In a meta-analysis of 224 dietary studies carried out over the last 25 years, researchers from the University of Arizona found that saturated fat is the culprit behind high cholesterol levels, with dietary cholesterol having little to no effect on blood cholesterol for most people....