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Why eggs may not raise your blood cholesterol

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The diet industry spent the 90s treating egg yolks like biological weapons. Here's the plot twist: dietary cholesterol has very little impact on blood cholesterol for the vast majority of people. Your liver produces cholesterol on its own. When you eat more of it, your liver just produces less to balance it out. The real villain clogging your arteries is saturated and trans fats, so leave the omelets alone.

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