According to an article from Dr. Gabe Mirkin, eggs do not cause heart attacks. He cites “the Physician’s Health Study followed doctors for 20 years and showed no association between eating eggs and heart attacks or strokes.  However, the doctors who ate lots of eggs did die earlier than those who avoided eggs, possibly because they also ate more bacon, sausage and butter.”

The question is the statement at the end that possibly the stuff we eat with eggs causes the problem with dietary cholesterol. While I have enjoyed fried, scrambled and poached eggs in the past I do not make them part of my regular diet now. Once in awhile my wife likes to have an egg burrito and I do partake though. I generally eat lots of vegetables, fruit and no red meat. Fish tacos are a new found item. My cholesterol is usually below 140.

Read Dr. Mirkin’s full article here.

For example, the Physician's Health Study
followed doctors for 20 years and showed no association between
eating eggs and heart attacks or strokes.  However, the doctors
who ate lots of eggs did die earlier than those who avoided eggs,
possibly because they also ate more bacon, sausage and butter.