In moderation, I disagree. Egg Yolks have been proven to actually increase Good Cholesterol. They contain all of the vital Nutrients on the egg. For this study, you can probably find 10 studies rebuking it.

I would rather listen to a registered dietician on the subject, as they are the health profrssionals that are taubht about food and its impact on health. Doctors are not taught nutrition and typically know enough about it to be dangerous. The smart ones refer their patients to a dietician.

People with insulin resistance ( ie. type 2 or 3 diabetes in process ) produce a low density lypo-protein molecule ( LDL) that is heavier and stickier than a person whose cells are functioning normally. There are several different types of LDL cholesterol molecules and the heavy,sticky molecule is produced in people consuming the Standard American Diet (SAD Diet). Processed simple carbohydrates ( grains, fruits and vegetables), which includes cereals, sugars, breads, jams, and juices (typical american breakfast) ,drastically increase the glucose levels in the blood, resulting in elevated insulin levels and concomitant cell protection or insulin resistance. The roll of the LDL (supposedly "bad " cholesterol ) is to repair cell damage in circulatory and nervous systems, not to mention the bile produced by the liver to remove toxins from the body and emulsify the fats in the gastro- intestinal tract. We also depend on the LDL to produce our hormones produced in the adrenal glands. LDL is also needed in the production and transportation of Vitamin D which affects one- third of the genes in your body! The problem arises when you have someone consuming the typical north american diet ,who is insulin resistant and well on their way to becoming a diabetic with on going cardio-vascular disease and eventually alzheimer's . These people produce a heavy, sticky form of LDL that upon repairing the arteriole wall creates a gooey mess that causes anything passing by the repair site (ie. red blood cells , white blood cells, platelets, HDL, and anything else in the blood, like the beneficial cholesterol found in eggs) to adhere to the plaque building up at lesion on the arteriole wall.. Find a healthcare provider that has sound knowledge in Nutrition like Dr. Oz or find a complimentory practitioner who can guide you through these confusing health issues.

I believe this study...100%. We have change our eating habits as a result of this study. I like the idea of 2 eggs per week....very good. I would not wish to exceed that amount. Great study! I've read it. You should too.

Do you recall the controversial studies about which is better between Margarine & Butter? They said at that time we all should switch to margarine as a better one and less of cholesterol. Few years later, they said margarine is bad so we gotta go back to butter plus it taste better. Now they are telling conflicting studies about eggs. I eat
6 fried eggs a week and I strong as a bull and healthy per my Cardiologist. So, eat
whatever you enjoy and dont follow all these bullshit studies. They always say something that whoever sponsored these studies will have financial gain. Oh by the way, I am 70 years old like my wife and were having a ball 3-4 times a week. We love to have sex at these rate....hahaha

I am 56 years old, drywall contractor of 35 years, I eat 30 to 40 eggs a week for many years and they are an excellent source of pure energy, I think that people get to caught up with all this hype about what is and is not healthy for you, if a person is always active...myself am extremely active and burn up all food input, if one is inactive then certain foods may cause problems I agree...Patrick

What a sensationalistic article. Since when do you show a blog and pretend its a scientific article. That's the problem with the internet these days, anybody can post anything and pretend it's the truth. At least with a book there are editors that are supposed to fete an article before its published.
I have been eating eggs pretty much everyday since I was a teenager. I am 49 years old and doing just fine. Why don't you print that and pretend it's a scientific fact? LOL. Katherine Watts, give your head a shake.

I think this is absolutely ridiculous. Everything in moderation is fine (especially eggs!) I believe it all boils down to your lifestyle and eating patterns.

I guess those professors of Neurology at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry just made all this up, frankly I'd prefer to get my plaque smoking a couple packs a day and toss in some lung issues to boot!

“Egg Yolks As Bad As Smoking” ??? What kind of drama queen thought this title is accurate?
I’m listening to the 2011 study from Harvard and stop reading this blog.

The studies from smoking have never ever changed - however where eggs are concerned what is the study of the week - like everything if we started using moderation it would go a long way.

Do you believe everything you read? So because someone spouts off that eggs are bad for you again, every one swallows it hook line and sinker. Come on people use you brains. This sounds like ''The sky is falling, the sky is falling''.

If you believe this, I've got some Florida swamp land that's for sale. What a bunch of balderdash!
I will keep on eating 6 eggs per week fried in butter and I am 70 plus years old.
I heard this guy on the radio spouting of his BS. I think he just wanted to hear himself talk. Sounded like he himself was ready to croak.

Wait, didn't a study JUST come out that debunked this as a myth? wtf is going on?

Excess cholesterol comes chiefly from excess carbs and (often related) low B vitamin levels. I suspect that correlation is not necessarily causation in the case of eggs. Eggs contain all sorts of good things, and if one is concerned, there are many varieties of omega-3 eggs and eggs from grain fed chickens. Assuming the study was based on the cheapest, factory farm eggs, the results may be worth about as much as the eggs. I'll continue to eat eggs, expensive ones, without toast.

Just a load of people with to much time on their hands that try to dazzle you with their brains and baffle you with a lot of BS.Ask your own doctor eggs are good for you if eaten in moderation.Two eggs a day will not harm you.

Every two years or so this egg this flip flops back and forth, it's all genetics.

As bad as smoking... lol wow wonder what they were smoking...Im gonna smoke my eggs a la crack cocaine style lol fuck it.

Do you really think life begins in a hostile environment?

Wow what a bunch of BS. Are they for real say'n this? Mad scientists!!! Is all I can say. I feel sorry for people who believe all of this propaganda crap that comes out of these rediculous studies and news today! They must really think were stupid, to come out with this garbage!!!

The seventy five year old guy sounds like myself thirty seven years from now - i eat two eggs everyday for the last 30 years six days per week - no problems. It might have something to do with the orange juice.

First eggs were good, then they were bad. Then they were good again, but now they're bad again. Only one conclusion is certain: these "researchers" have absolutely no credibility whatsoever.

first thing I noticed is that none of the Authors appears to have used professional accreditation behind their names. Wonder why?? fear of law suite perhaps.?
over my 60 years I have seen countless studies , they're good no they're bad.

as with all foods groups,Moderation!!!! at least that is what my cardiologist and my dietician tell me. We are all genetically programed to be susceptible to certain diseases, much is race dependant back through our ancestry.

second for you to headline this in tabloid like manner is irresponsible.

Stupid... I've been eating close to two dozen whole eggs a week for years and have never had any health issues. I'm in my fifties with low cholesterol (4%) which has been progressively getting lower in recent years due to some dietary (processed foods) and activity changes. Eggs are a very nutritious whole food.

Maybe it's the bacon. I'm just saying...

If I followed all the advice I see in the media, I'd probably be dead from malnutrition by now.

This is Absurd! I have eaten 1 egg every day for years. I have never used cigarttes and no high colesterol levels. What a load of BS from an over paid under used U. Prof.., with notheing better to do than look at egg consumption. Stop smoking Folks. It will kill you before the eggs do!

PS
Next thing is no Buttrer it will make your gonads swell.

The endless studies are tiresome and contradictory. They are done to keep egg-heads busy.......i.e. earn their pay! As a senior I have seen studies tell us one thing at one time and 20 years later they tell us the exact opposite. I would rather follow my grandmother's advice! Moderation and good exercise (not violent) will keep us functioning well, physically and mentally, for years. We do NOT have to pay for expensive exercise machines to do that! Beware of "Experts"....they are no longer "pert"!

I eat two poched eggs every day and so far my cholestol is fine. Checked every year. I was raised on a farm and we all ate eggs on a daily basis. All are well and fine so far. Ages 63 - 70!!

I'ld want to see a peer reviewed published study before getting too excited. I worked in the egg industry through the "cholesterol crisis" and out the other end, to the point that now eggs are considered healthy for most people. I've eaten 2/day for breakfast for the past 60 years (i,m 76 now) and I'm not about to stop now. Nothing like it to keep you going until lunch time!

High cholesteral is directly linked with slow thyroid function, weather the thyroid function test are normal or not. Their is sub-clinical hypothyroism cauI beilsed by a defect in the thyroid releasing hormone from the pituitary gland and this is the cause of high cholesterol in some people. I believe in eating everything in moderation and am fed up with all these studies that say one thng and than another. I can also proove that most people who wear skirts are at a higher risk of developing breast cancer.

Yes this is too bad not sure what the study is trying "really" trying to prove. Does it say how the eggs were cooked? All I know is that I eat alot of eggs and at the age of 40 I have never had a problem with cholesterol, actually it is excellent. Egg yolk is one of the best sources of vitamin A on the planet, of course it fails to tell you that. I do try to eat my daily staples organic. And overall I lead a healthy lifestyle. To compare egg yolk to smoking is simply ridiculous.

Interesting how studies differ. In order judge the veracity of these studies, one needs to know who sponsored the research. Funny but this is never disclosed in the press release, or, asked about by interviewers.
So, ignore this; just remember that the true defence is MODERATION (from my cardiac surgeon)

More BS from these people. Lets look at reality, not every food or drink is safe for everyone, there is always going to be people who will have a bad reaction , alergy to one or more food or drink products. There are going to be people who smoke , drink and eat , according to doctors and groups, all the wrong foods, and live to be along time, where some people who dont smoke and drink and eat everything so called good and die young. Not all people who smoke get cancer, cancer can hit anyone for a lot of different reasons. Years ago the medical so called proffessionals said milk was bad for you, then coffee was bad for you, then this food was bad then that food was bad, soon they are going to get people so batty, mixed up they will be afraid of eating or drinking anything and they will die of starvation. This also goes for perscription drugs and over the counter drugs, one time asprin was no good for you and now its tylenol. Just because a few people have a deadly or bad reaction, doesnt mean everyone will. No one knows what or when some people will have a reaction to certain things, it doesnt mean it is bad for everyone.

From the "new study":
Our findings suggest that regular consumption of egg yolk should be avoided by persons at risk of cardiovascular disease. This hypothesis should be tested in a prospective study with more detailed information about diet, and other possible confounders such as exercise and waist circumference.

So what the author(s) have is a hypothesis, from a survey which doesn't take into account what the subjects ate in addition to egg yolks. Is this article even serious?

Even as a health care professional, I too am baffled by the number of conflicting studies that influence our lives. The amount of flip flopping that occurs isn't reasonable for the average Canadian. Just use common sense. Exercise, quit smoking , and consume sugar, fats and alcohol in moderation. End of story.

At one time eggs were not good because of colesterol. Then eggs were good because of omega3. Now they are unheathy again. Everything in moderation

Boring, Trite,Boring Trite piece of research! Been there before, heard that before...For god sake, the research to this funding is better spent feeding the hungry in the Third World. What I am really convinced is after hearing such many researching hypothesis the dumb plaques have buildup in the minds of those researchers. Once and for all STOP funding the lies, to the after lies, after lies!

yup! and the sky is falling too! Morons!

Why are you posting an article about an outdated (2000!) study? It has been discredited numerous times in current research; including that you cite by Harvard. Why do you not even name the base of the reseachers who contributed this old article to the named magazine.
Total garbage reporting; unworthy of this homepage.

Just wait a week and they will be good for you again. Reading studies will throw you into a tizzy and you won't want to eat or drink anything. I buy Free range eggs directly from the farm and I beieve they are one of the healthiest things you can eat. Just look at the coffee debate and the red wine debate....like I said wait a week, then go buy some eggs and enjoy them. Lots of money wasted on studies that never hold water long term. I want a big grant to study chocolate. I could really get behind a study like that.

For decades, people have been warned about the relationship between egg-eating and high cholesterol. Why is this perceived to be new material?! It seems to me that people decide to ignore health rules for a time, then haul those that have been disgarded to the fore, once again, claiming that something new has been discovered. This is definitely *not* the case - it's old news.

I find that hard to believe.What are they gonna come up with next.Egg yolk is full of protien, and protien is suppose to be good for us.I realize that too much of it can be bad, but then again too much of anything is bad .
I think that smoking is very dangerous for the lungs .Take a look at the smoke that come from smoking, it is sickening.I dislike smoking also alcohol is very bad for your liver.Like i said too muck of anything is bad.

Everywhere you turn new studies are filp-flopping in the media.
Is this intentional to keep everyone in a state of perpetual fear?
Hitler, Mao, Stalin pointed out very clearly that it is much easier to control a population if they are living in fear... whether it is conscience or sub-conscience.
All this "clucking" only serves to confuse people more...and tighten their arteries.

WattsTF! Kathline.

Another survey cocnfusing everyone about eggs. I eat eggs once or twice a week. No problems with heart or blood pressure, No plaque build up (had a sonogram of my heart). I was a smoker for years. I will be 80 the end of Dec. I think I will go by my way of eating....everything in moderation. And, please quit trying to scare us with these surveys.

Another "deadly eggs" study? Sheesh, give me a break - this will be like what? The third one, and the other two were proven false .. and I'm sure if eggs are really that bad it is because of the way eggs are mass farmed in a subhuman manner where chickens are pumped full of hormones to produce more eggs and antibiotics and other drugs just to keep them alive in their putrid horrific conditions one could barely call living ... all so you can have your egg mcmuffin.

Eat local organic and free range foods. Problems solved.

Ok I am so sick of this. I am 31 years old and I keep hearing eggs are bad for you oh wait now eggs are good for you then bad again then good. I dont listen to these studies cause in a bit it will all change

I see a doctor at a Healthy Heart Program, because although I'm at a healthy weight and live a healthy lifestyle, my cholesterol is still high. I am also extremely high risk as both my parents died young of heart disease. I absolutely love eggs, in any way shape or form but I'm sticking with what this well-known surgeon has told me - no more than 2 per week. He just laughs about ads from time to time put out by the Egg Marketing Board saying in essence, eat as much as you want.

i eat 8 eggs a week all my life and have blood tests ,every thing is fine .
i'am 75 yrs old.
i wonder about the guys doing these study's.

I eat 3 eggs for breakfast every day with a slice of bacon for additional saturated fat and some broccoli, tomatoes, onions or other vegetabled. I believe this is healthier than cereal, skim milk and a banana. A cardiologist might not agree with this.
The study found a correlation between egg consumption and plaque buildup. They could have also found that plaque correlates with consumption of wheat, sugar, or waist size or shoe size. This study proves that the cholesterol hypothesis ie cholesterol causes cardiovascular disease is still alive in the minds of researchers.