Eggs: no weekly limit, but we pay them at a higher price

Eggs have seen it all. There was a time when the advice was to only eat three a week. If you made a potato omelette with eight eggs or prepared a tower of omelettes, you had already consumed more than the recommended percentage. And then what? Our bad cholesterol would increase, we thought. A few years ago, nutrition studies showed that we had suffered counting the weekly eggs consumed for nothing, because dietary cholesterol does not have a direct or significant impact on blood cholesterol, as nutritionists Anna Costa and Anna Grífols state. Therefore, today we live in a golden age for eggs because we can eat as many as we want without worrying about having excess cholesterol in our blood, the kind that accumulates in the arteries, forms plaque and, consequently, increases the risk of heart attacks. Perhaps because of this and also due to dietary trends, egg consumption has increased throughout Europe: in the last ten years we have eaten 20% more than before.Regarding cholesterol, it should be said that nutrition knows that "a good part of it is manufactured by ourselves in our liver, and that what has the most impact is the entirety of the daily diet and the lifestyle we lead," explains Anna Grífols. In other words, we can eat an egg every day, which will have no consequence on bad cholesterol, but, on the other hand, if we accompany that egg with saturated fats, ultra-processed foods, and caloric excesses, then everything changes. And everything changes even more if we lead a sedentary life.The golden age of eggs

To continue, the golden age of eggs is also explained because we like to eat them for breakfast, for dinner and also at , according to data from the Poultry Federation of Catalonia (FAC), which clarifies that the