Dietary Guidelines: “Eat as Little Dietary Cholesterol as Possible”
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2023-04-05

Why do the official federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend limiting the intake of dietary cholesterol (found mostly in eggs) as much as possible?

I gave testimony to the Dietary Guidelines Committee for these new recommendations. Watch it here (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/highlights-from-the-2020-dietary-guidelines-hearing/).

For more on the false advertising of the egg industry, check out Eggs and Cholesterol: Patently False and Misleading Claims (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-and-cholesterol-patently-false-and-misleading-claims/).

Trans fat and saturated fat should also be limited as much as possible. See: Trans Fat, Saturated Fat, and Cholesterol: Tolerable Upper Intake of Zero (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/trans-fat-saturated-fat-and-cholesterol-tolerable-upper-intake-of-zero/)

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