The Cholesterol Myth Has Been Busted — Yet Again

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By Dr. Mercola

By Dr. Mercola

For the past four decades, the U.S. government has warned that eating cholesterol-rich foods such as eggs would raise your LDL cholesterol (inappropriately referred to as “bad” cholesterol) and promote heart disease.

Alas, decades’ worth of research utterly failed to demonstrate this correlation, and the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans1,2,3,4,5 finally addressed this scientific shortcoming, announcing “cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.”6

This is good news, since dietary cholesterol plays an important role in brain health and memory formation, and is …read more

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