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Why do doctors say that you could eat eggs freely, every day? – Good advice by Dr Harold It was thought that cholesterol in the yolk of an egg gets absorbed in your gut as cholesterol and increases your bad cholesterol (LDL) in your blood, increasing your risk of heart disease. Some said that you should avoid the yellow yolk and consume only the white of an egg, but today all those mythical believes are wiped out because the truth is that cholesterol in eggs and other foods is not absorbed from the gut as cholesterol. Each egg does have 185 mg of dietary cholesterol. The fact is that dietary cholesterol is broken down in your gut and is not absorbed as a cholesterol molecule. On the contrary, it is saturated fats in your diet that’s broken down into fatty acids and increase the blood cholesterol through their conversion in ...