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Eggs are one of those foods you can eat at every meal. Scrambled eggs at breakfast can stabilize your blood sugar while keeping you full through lunch. A healthy salad topped with sliced hard-boiled eggs adds a little more protein to your daily protein count. Add some vegetables, such as broccoli or asparagus, to some eggs for a tasty frittata. That’s probably a lot of eggs in a day, especially if you’re watching your cholesterol. An egg has 186 milligrams of cholesterol, and previous guidelines used to suggest limiting your daily cholesterol to 300 milligrams a day.

But that’s changed, according to a 2015 report from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which said that there isn’t enough evidence to show that dietary cholesterol increases blood cholesterol. Tamar Samuels, a registered dietitian at Culina Health, says most people can eat eggs as part of a heart-healthy diet without increasing their cholesterol levels. However, you have to consider how you cook your eggs and what else is on your plate