Gaston ate sixty eggs a day! How’s HIS cholesterol?
This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying…
Who knows? How bad is egg cholesterol, really?
Sharayah Carter and team from the University of South Australia investigated.
Forty-eight adults tried different diets for five weeks each. One diet cut out eggs, but had high saturated fat. The other included TWO eggs daily – but kept saturated fat low.
No eggs but high saturated fat? Correlated with more bad cholesterol. In contrast? The two-egg diet with low saturated fat actually DECREASED bad cholesterol. So saturated fat, not eggs, may be the bigger problem.
No studies yet on Gaston’s diet. But two eggs a day won’t break EGG-cellent heart health!
Reference: Carter, S., Hill, A. M., Yandell, C., Wood, L., Coates, A. M., & Buckley, J. D. (2025). Impact of dietary cholesterol from eggs and saturated fat on LDL cholesterol levels: A randomized cross-over study. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 122(1), 83–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.05.001