Cracking the myth: Eggs not to blame for bad cholesterol

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A new study found it's not cholesterol from eggs, but saturated fat that's the real health concern.

Bacon, sausage and other foods typically eaten with eggs raise adverse LDL cholesterol.

Eating two eggs a day alongside a low saturated fat diet can help reduce LDL cholesterol.

A new study adds to the growing notion that advice to limit egg consumption to avoid increasing bad cholesterol and risk of heart disease was based on scrambled data.

What raises bad LDL cholesterol is actually the types of food we tend to eat alongside our eggs, such as bacon and sausage, according to a study from the University of South Australia that finds eggs have been unfairly beaten up for decades.

Advice has long been to limit egg consumption — especially the cholesterol-containing yolks — to