Eggs: Good or Evil?

Are eggs good for you, or are they delectable time bombs of the heart?  If you look online, it's incredibly difficult to find unbiased information on anything, and unfortunately eggs and health is another topic that is ridden with an agenda.  sigh. 

SO dear reader, I decided to try to find at least a semblance of something as non-biased as possible.  What did I find, you may ask?  Two articles.  

1. The first is from my hometown hero, The Mayo Clinic.  Mayo Clinic - famous for the typical health stuff, like cancer, unusual diseases, face-eating tumors....just a few things here and there.  Anyway, according to cardiologist, Dr. Thomas Behrenbeck:

"Chicken eggs are high in cholesterol, and a diet high in cholesterol can contribute to high blood cholesterol levels. However, how much the cholesterol in your diet can increase your blood cholesterol varies from person to person."

Essentially, a normal, healthy person should consume no more than 300 mg of cholesterol a day.  One chicken egg yolk  has about 213 mg. If you have issues with cholesterol, just consume the white, since it has none. 

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2. HOWEVER, enter article #2 from livestrong.com and the Lance Armstrong Foundation.  You know, the guy that is famous for riding bikes really well, dating Sheryl Crow, and having testicular cancer and bringing global awareness to it via cheap yellow bracelets.  Anyway, according to them:

 "Nutritionists now recognize three different kinds of cholesterol. One of these, HDL cholesterol, is actually good for circulatory health. Hard-boiled eggs long were on the "bad food" list because of their cholesterol count, but it turns out that some of the fats in hard-boiled eggs are actually heart healthy."

Some aspects of eggs are good, some not so good. While eggs themselves have cholesterol, it does not necessarily become bad cholesterol in our blood once ingested, but actually helps promote good cholesterol via good unsaturated fats.

However, the article also says that it's not "the best" source of good heart health (obviously, it still has some bad saturated fats and contains about 71% of our daily cholesterol intake).  

The real answer, just like EVERYTHING, is to just exercise moderation.