Should You Eat Eggs? Unscrambling the Advice

Eggs are excellent for your health! Eggs are evil! Science suggests the answer is somewhere in between.

Humans have eaten various types of bird eggs since long before we were even human. In more modern times, domesticated chicken eggs became a dietary staple in many countries, and were a mainstay of the American diet among early European settlers. Then in the 1960s and 1970s, eggs were suddenly vilified for their high level of cholesterol. Doctors advised people to avoid them.