New study vindicates eggs, says they don't hike bad-cholesterol levels

Bogdan Hofbauer

July 21 (UPI) -- A new egg study has produced sunny-side-up results for the oft-maligned breakfast staple. Eggs are commonly thought to increase the risk of heart disease by raising people's cholesterol levels. But people who ate two eggs a day experienced reductions in their "bad" LDL cholesterol levels, as long as the rest of their diet remained low in saturated fat, researchers reported in the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition . Indeed, the amount of saturated fat in a

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