Eating eggs doesn’t just raise your ‘bad’ cholesterol—it also raises your ‘good’ cholesterol and makes the bad cholesterol particles bigger and less harmful to your arteries.

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Is There a Correlation between Dietary and Blood Cholesterol? Evidence from Epidemiological Data and Clinical Interventions

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2022 May 23

This study found that eating foods high in cholesterol, like eggs, can raise good cholesterol (HDL) and make bad cholesterol (LDL) particles bigger and less harmful — even if total bad cholesterol doesn’t change. That’s exactly what the claim says.

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Is There a Correlation between Dietary and Blood Cholesterol? Evidence from Epidemiological Data and Clinical Interventions

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DOI: 10.3390/nu14102168

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