Eggs won’t hard boil your heart

Listeners to yesterday’s KCUR show Up to Date with Steve Kraske heard his guest, Dr. Michael Main, talk about cardiovascular disease. At one point a caller mentioned that his wife was growing chickens and wondered whether it would be all right for him to eat more eggs if he increased his dose of heart medicine.

Dr. Main can’t give that sort of advice over the air so he wasn’t too specific, but his answer was essentially no, the caller couldn’t eat more eggs just because he took more medicine. Because eggs are high in cholesterol, cardiologists have been telling people with heart problems to avoid them, or severely cut back on them, for years.

But today, scientists in Britain released the largest study ever done on eggs and their relationship to heart conditions.