"ravenlynne" > wrote
>
> Hmm...I wonder if it's still true that you're only supposed to eat 3 a
> week for cholesterol concerns...
>

I never paid attention to that advice--for twenty years--and have low
LDL and very high HDL, the good kind. It's my understanding that
the "authorities" have changed their tune in two ways: first, they admit
that only 40% of your total cholesterol comes from diet, the rest is
made by your own body, and this is the kind that tends to go sky
high and cause problems; and second, that eggs in and of them
selves are not bad, it is the things we eat with them--things full
of saturated fat like bacon, ham, cheese--that are bad for us
in combination with high cholesterol foods.

The thing is, the nutrition in them is great, and the yolks, long seen
as the big culprits, contain several substances that actually fight
high cholesterol--such as vitamin e and lecithin.

I have a good friend who was always hyper-aware of fat, ate
low fat, no eggs, exercised all the time, and was on cholesterol
medication by the age of 30, with dangerously high cholesterol.

That convinced me that a lot of cholesterol trouble is hereditary.