Should I include eggs in my diet?

Should I include eggs in my diet?

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Eggs are an excellent source of inexpensive protein. What's important is that we choose eggs from good quality sources and that we prepare them correctly. We would prefer eggs from free roaming hens. We would also prefer eggs that are soft cooked because when we hard cook the egg, we expose the fatty acids in the yolk to the heat. This will denature those fats and create the free radicals that our body then must repair by sending cholesterol to take care of the nicks in our arteriole walls. It is not the egg that produces cholesterol. In fact, many research studies have shown that eggs do not raise cholesterol at all. However, when we hard cook them or when we fry them, that's when we create the damage to our arteries, and the cholesterol that the body already produces now has to be sent to do some repair work.