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Study: Eggs Are Nearly as Bad for Your Arteries as Cigarettes

While the link between eggs and cholesterol — and between cholesterol and heart disease — is well established, this study sheds light on the extent of their potential harm if eaten routinely in large quantities. A single large egg contains more than 180 mg of cholesterol — more than a third of a person’s daily recommended intake. By this measure, a typical American breakfast alone, with two eggs (plus bacon!), would push well past that. Egg whites, meanwhile, remain excellent.

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   People that don’t eat eggs and/or smoke cigarettes still get hit by cars and die of non-health causes… theatlantic:

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    Guys, just shut up. If you had taken a fucking 300-level undergraduate biochemistry class, you would know that IT...

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    Whatever. I’m going to eat all those deviled eggs.

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    I don’t accept two eggs and bacon as “typical American breakfast.” Oatmeal or cereal sounds much more reasonable.

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    But seriously, fuck egg whites. Might as well eat paper, since they have the same amount of flavor. Give me yolks or...

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    Yikes!

29. thegeneralcafe reblogged this from theatlantic and added:

    Studies have obviously never eaten a deviled egg, because they are delicious, and delicious things are good for you.

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35. sheisthefracturedonesewn said: that is the scariest egg dish i have ever seen
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    Fuck you, study. I am trying to lift weights and get strong and I don’t eat meat so I’m going to eat as many eggs as I...

37. whosthegirlwearingsunglasses reblogged this from sunny1 and added:

    Eggs are wonderful. They’re incredible and edible.

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    want to eat those eggs

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    art yucko is an egg

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    Eggs are bad? Oh.

45. placesweusedtogo reblogged this from theatlantic and added:

    Egg whites are completely valueless, nutritionally speaking (and frankly from a tastebud standpoint as well), and...

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    I eat so many fucking eggs fuck

47. elliottwdavis reblogged this from theatlantic and added:

    Someone needs to brush up on their biochemistry… and their fearmongering.

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