For a while, we felt like we’d gotten over our paranoia about eggs. Studies emerged that showed that dietary cholesterol intake from eggs was not so closely linked to high blood cholesterol (a risk factor for heart disease) as once thought. The daily cholesterol dietary limit of 300 mg was removed from our national dietary guidelines. And many doctors and nutritionists stopped preaching egg white omelettes and began embracing whole eggs, citing their beneficial levels of vitamin D, choline, vitamin K2, and other nutrients that are often hard to find elsewhere.
