For most healthy people who eat a balanced diet, having one to three eggs a day doesn’t raise their bad cholesterol—but it might slightly raise their good cholesterol.

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Dietary Cholesterol and Plasma Lipoprotein Profiles: Randomized Controlled Trials

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This study found that eating up to 3 eggs a day doesn’t usually raise bad cholesterol (LDL) in most healthy people, and might slightly raise good cholesterol (HDL), which is exactly what the claim says.

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Dietary Cholesterol and Plasma Lipoprotein Profiles: Randomized Controlled Trials

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DOI: 10.1007/s13668-013-0064-0

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