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Eggs: how much is enough?
A typical egg yolk contains up to 220 miligrams of cholesterol.
This means if you have a couple of scrambled eggs for your breakfast, it will be already over daily recomended limit of 300 miligrams of cholesterol. For these, eggs have had a lot of bad press.
But eggs are not forbidden for a healthy diet.
Eggs white contains no cholesterol and can be a substitute for whole eggs. Commercial egg substitutes also are readily available in the market.
Eating an egg every now and then in a week will be still safely under the recommended limit.
Egg versus high cholesterol
Certainly, egg contains cholesterol.
After years of research, however, majority of nutritional experts now agree that egg cholesterol has only slight effects on blood cholesterol levels.
Contrary to popular belief, scientific studies also failed to link egg consumption with hearth disease or hypertension.
Eggs have been known packed with important nutrients.
Eggs contain nature's best protein source along with other nutrients including folate, riboflavin, vitamins A and B12, and they are one of the few dietary sources of vitamin D.
So, do not cut out eggs in your diet!
Some specialty brands of eggs are now available that come pumped up with even more good nutrition especially for your hearth. Thus you can safely include eggs in you weekly or daily menu.
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