Can eating eggs cause high cholesterol?

In fact, only about 25% of the cholesterol in the human body is eaten. Eggs are rich in lecithin, which inhibits the absorption of cholesterol.

Therefore, no matter how much eggs are eaten, the cholesterol in them will not be fully absorbed by the body. Cholesterol in food must be hydrolyzed before it can be absorbed, and cholesterol that is not absorbed is turned into feces and passed out of the body.

Swedish doctor Guo Fei Lovanskov has done experiments on himself, eat 8 eggs a day, a week later, his total cholesterol, from 278 mg/L to 246mg/L. Since then, more and more authorities have also published their own research views, finding that egg intake and heart disease, no specific link.

Studies have shown that in people with diabetes, high blood lipids, a history of heart disease, and over the age of 60, eating 1 to 2 eggs per day does not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.

The study by Professor Li Liming and his team at the Peking University School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and the University of Oxford in the UK, found that among about 510,000 people who consumed eggs every day, the risk of hemorrhagic stroke was reduced by 25%, the risk of ischemic heart disease was reduced by 12%, and the risk of cardiovascular disease was reduced by 11%.