Everything You Know is Wrong, Cholesterol Edition

Cleveland Clinic:

For decades, physicians have been advising their patients to restrict their intake of high-cholesterol foods to avoid cardiovascular disease. But new federal dietary guidelines now under consideration will drop the current recommendations that limit these foods.

Acknowledging decades of research that shows dietary cholesterol has little or no effect on most people’s blood cholesterol levels, the nation’s top nutrition panel said in a report released in February that cholesterol no longer should be considered a “nutrient of concern.”