Does eating eggs cause high cholesterol?

How many eggs a day is it safe to eat?

Does it make a difference if you eat only the yellows as compared to the whites or vice versa?

I want to try the new egg only diet, only I don't want to injure my health.

How many eggs do you eat a day?

How many do you recommend eating?

Which is better the whites or the yellows?

I even heard it is okay to eat the shells!

I eat like 1 a month, hahaha. I have never heard of someone that eats more then one egg a day though. Maybe that's a dutch thing, though

The only times I eat eggs at breakfast are when I'm on vacation, because then I can get scrambled or boiled eggs without having to make them myself  
At dinner, I think I eat 0-2 meals with eggs in it a week.

I barely eat eggs, I'm not even allowed to make them. Someitmes I will be given breakfast with one in them so in general I can eat anywhere from 2 to 5 eggs in a month, though having at least 1 a day would probably be very healthy.

Does eating eggs cause high cholesterol?

No there is not much difference in cholesterol.

It can increase slightly though because the yolk (Yellow Part) has a lot of cholesterol in it. In fact, a single medium sized egg contains 186 mg of cholesterol, which is 62% of the recommended daily intake. Our body needs cholesterol and  when we eat a lot of cholesterol rich foods, the liver starts producing less, which sounds weird in my opinion but it's true. You would think it would produce more but that's not the case.

So the total amount of cholesterol in the body changes only very little (if at all), it is just coming from the diet instead of from the liver. I wouldn't worry to much about eating a couple of eggs a day though.


How many eggs a day is it safe to eat? Possibly 1 a day. Common recommendations include a maximum of 2-6 yolks per week but there isn't any actual  proof that you should only eat that much.

Does it make a difference if you eat only the yellows as compared to the whites or vice versa? It doesn't make much of a difference but the white contains a lot less cholesterol than the yellow part.

How many eggs do you eat a day? I usually don't eat eggs everyday. The only time I usually make eggs is on occasion or if I make my egg burritos which is possibly once a month.

How many do you recommend eating? Honestly, I couldn't say. If eggs was the last thing I could eat on the world though I would eat maybe 2 a day.
Which is better the whites or the yellows? Whites are better but only by a slight difference.

I even heard it is okay to eat the shells... Really? LOL I have never heard of that.

I did some research on it though and this is what I found. 

Of course you can most of us already have at one time or another. The main ingredient in eggshells is calcium carbonate (the same brittle white stuff that chalk, limestone, cave stalactites, sea shells, coral, and pearls are made of). The shell itself is about 95% CaCO3 (which is also the main ingredient in sea shells). The remaining 5% includes calcium phosphate and magnesium carbonate and soluble and insoluble proteins.

After reading that myself come to think of it, most people actually have ate egg shells because by accident people get it mixed in with the eggs after breaking the egg.

I did a bunch of research to help answer some of the questions you asked. Honestly I couldn't even think of going on an only egg diet but it sounds quite interesting. I think you should try it but I would want to encorperate a few more food items just so I can get all the things I need in my daily diet.

The only times I eat eggs are for breakfast or for dinner if I'm having other breakfast foods like bacon with it. The only ways I'll eat eggs are if they're either scrambled or fried.

eggs are high in cholesterol
well mine i eat eggs 2 every week not everyday
i dont like scramble eggs i like fried eggs

On exercise days, I eat 13 eggs (protein supplements are too expensive with my meager inter allowance). On non-exercise days I eat 6-7 eggs, and on my fasting day I eat 2. If you want the health benefits you need to eat the whole egg; whites only have protein.

As for cholesterol, it's of no interest. It's an essential part of your body and you need to eat it. It MIGHT become problematic if you eat unhealthy fats like vegetable oils (full of omega 6 that cause inflammation) or hydrogenated oils that clog your arteries