The woman, who goes by the Twitter name Plant Based Barb, claimed the cholesterol in egg yolks makes them more damaging than cigarettes.

She said: "One egg = five cigarettes!? Egg yolks are loaded with cholesterol. A medium-sized egg contains 186 mg of cholesterol, which is 62 percent of the recommended intake. Eating eggs is worse for your health than smoking!"



It is unclear how Barb calculated that the cholesterol in eggs is more damaging than all the poisons and tar in cigarettes, but it seems safe to say her conclusion is erroneous.

First of all, her tweet is based on an outdated belief that cholesterol content in food directly affects blood cholesterol levels.

Victoria Taylor, senior dietitian at the British Heart Foundation, explained: "In the past it was thought that people should limit the number of eggs they eat to three to four a week because they contain cholesterol. It is the egg yolks that have the cholesterol.

"However, the misconceptions around eggs and cholesterol largely stemmed from incorrect conclusions drawn from early research that dietary cholesterol contributed to raised blood cholesterol levels.

"Now current research shows that for most healthy people, cholesterol in food, such as eggs, has a much smaller effect on blood levels of total cholesterol and harmful LDL cholesterol, especially when compared with the much greater and more harmful effects of saturated fatty acids found in foods such as butter and fatty meat. Eggs are, in fact, low in saturated fat.

"Recent research has also shown that moderate egg consumption - up to one a day - does not increase heart disease risk in healthy individuals and can be part of a healthy diet."
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what ever you guys like say, i must eat egg.

I think this is arrant nonsense, how can any sane person compare eating eggs to smoking cigarettes Am sure you are a cigarette smoker