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New Study Finds Eating Eggs May Not Increase Cholesterol Levels
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I had a high cholesterol reading that coincided with me eating a lot of eggs all of a sudden (I bought a lot when the price went down after the first ridiculous price gouging and then needed to finish them before they expired) but I was eating 4+ eggs a day and maybe the sudden diet change contributed. I think there's some correlation between eating eggs and increased cholesterol levels, but what I'm wondering more about is the effects of cholesterol itself. It can depend on the individual and it's not necessarily as simple as a single number. It wasn't that long ago when cholesterol was just assumed bad and there wasn't even a distinction between "good" and "bad" cholesterol.
I mentioned in a top -level comment in the thread that I had high cholesterol, but my doctor had me do a coronary calcium scan, which said I had zero plaque buildup in my arteries (and I'm an older guy). So apparently high cholesterol doesn't necessarily equate to heart disease.