Do eggs up blood cholesterol?

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Several Drs told me to reduce or stop my eggs intake to bring down my cholesterol. Thing is I love eggs. I have been having 2 eggs like every month. I think I am fine.

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I used to eat 16-20 eggs a week when my cholesterol was too high.

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alexa says 1 or 2 eggs a day doesn’t raise cholesterol, im undecided myself and am hesitant to add eggs to my diet, i would probably have 2 hard boiled eggs as a snack and for protein otherwise.

i have high cholesterol, because of meds, but stopped my statin. just doing the diet and exercise thing for now.

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2 eggs a month isn’t going to make any difference.
I had a friend who used to eat 2 eggs a day.

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Having eggs once a month is fine, even having it once a week is ok too.

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I used to eat 8 large scrambled eggs with 3 big pitas for dinner while I was on Zyprexa. I ate too much on Zyprexa.

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my favorite is 3 eggs scrambled with shredded cheese and salsa haha.

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I just had custom omelet. Parmesan, eggs, feta cheese and spinach with pita bread, so good.

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I like Sriracha hot sauce with scrambled eggs.

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both sound delicious. im about to eat some fried chicken, mom and dad are having a big labor day bash, she just called and said to come eat.

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lol Aziz. Kinda want to try one of your omelettes now :smiley:

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I believe the yolk is the part with cholesterol. The egg whites should be safe. But yeah, 2 a month seems very reasonable.

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I’m not really big on eggs.

The only way I like to cook them, is first I cook a pound of bacon, then I cook scrambled eggs in the bacon grease. Not good for cholesterol and fat but damn tasty, lol

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I don’t believe egg yolks affect ldl cholesterol. Probably a myth. There’s still pseudoscience being spread around in the nutrition world.

E.g ‘refined sugars’

which is nonsense cos all sugar is a carbohydrate. Different molecules, different glycemic index, different structure, but all ends up as glucose or glycogen. I could eat 4 honey mangoes and probably have more sugar than a bottle of Coke lol

I need to double check the egg thing tho.

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Not for me. I eat at least five per day and my cholesterol is perfect. Don’t need meds for it.

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what I want to know, is why are cage-free eggs,

3X as much as regular eggs? when you try to do the right thing,
there’s always a catch to it.

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I take cholesterol meds now.

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Partly because of the much lower egg yield and partly because they know they can soak people for them.

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My dietician a couple years ago said there was newer evidence that even though egg yolks have quite a bit if cholesterol, they’re actually one of the best ways to get it because of how effectively our bodies process it to the point that eggs are rarely (the example of too much that she gave was a father that was eating over a dozen every day) the reason a person has high cholesterol. She recommended I eat 2-4 eggs a day. I did and my cholesterol didn’t go up at all when they checked 6 months later.

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I thought something similar when I tried an Impossible Whopper from Burger King. I’m like okay, I’m doing the right thing (according to vegans) and eating a plant based burger, but it cost more than a regular Whopper.

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