Studies show that eating eggs is linked to higher death rates, but when researchers control for the cholesterol in those eggs, the connection gets much weaker. This hints that it might be the cholesterol—not the eggs themselves—that's actually harmful.

Eating up to six eggs a week doesn’t raise your bad cholesterol or increase your risk of heart disease, even if you’re older, overweight, or have high blood pressure.

Eating up to six eggs a week doesn’t raise your risk of heart disease or stroke, even if you have high blood pressure or other health issues.

Eating eggs doesn’t raise bad cholesterol overall, but it makes the good cholesterol bigger and better at cleaning up artery gunk, and turns bad cholesterol into larger, less harmful particles.

Eating eggs doesn’t just raise your ‘bad’ cholesterol—it also makes your ‘good’ cholesterol better and turns your bad cholesterol into bigger, less harmful particles.

Eating eggs every day doesn't raise your chances of heart disease or stroke, according to a big review of health studies.