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.

If you're overweight and eating a low-carb diet, having up to two eggs a day for a year probably won't raise your 'bad' cholesterol — so eggs might be okay in this kind of diet.

Eating up to three eggs a day for a month might help lower bad cholesterol and raise good cholesterol in healthy young adults, without making them gain weight or increasing a chemical linked to heart disease — which could be good for their heart health.

Eating one to three eggs a day for a month might help improve your heart health by lowering the bad cholesterol relative to the good cholesterol, even if your overall cholesterol and weight don’t change.

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.

Eating eggs doesn’t just raise your bad cholesterol—it changes the type of bad cholesterol to a bigger, less harmful kind that’s less likely to clog arteries.