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You eat a lot of eggs when you do Atkins. Isn't all that cholesterol bad for you?

If we had to name a perfect food, the egg would win, hands down. While many foods supply a mere handful of vitamins and minerals, eggs are nature's perfect food. It is one of the few foods that can provide all eight essential amino acids, the building blocks of protein (as well as choline). Since our bodies don't manufacture these eight substances, we have to get them through foods or supplements. The yolk of an egg is protein so it was a travesty when low-fat propaganda had people eating egg-white omelets, meaning they missed out on the most nutrient-dense part of the egg.

People who have steered clear of eggs for years, fearing their cholesterol count, can still have high blood cholesterol. When you are on a controlled carb lifestyle and beneath your threshold of carbohydrate tolerance, you are burning fat for energy. The fat in food poses no threat, so long as you are controlling carbohydrates. Moreover, the cholesterol found in an egg will have no impact on your total blood cholesterol on a controlled carbohydrate nutritional approach.