>In a past I tried to eat several yolks a day for a long time. My total
 >cholesterol was close to 200 (never more) with very good ratios LDL/HDL,
 >trig, etc.

Hi Paul;

Do you do a significant amount of daily or near-daily exercise? Your
cholesterol counts are good but I have been reading abstracts and some say
that with egg consumption, a gain in the LDL percent is seen (see an example
below). That doesn't seem to be occuring with you.

Marilyn

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/73/5/885?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10
&RESULTFORMAT=&titleabstract=egg+consumption&searchid=1044575176788_944&stor
ed_search=&FIRSTINDEX=10&journalcode=ajcn

Dietary cholesterol from eggs increases the ratio of total cholesterol to
high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in humans: a meta-analysis1,2,3

Rianne M Weggemans, Peter L Zock and Martijn B Katan

1 From the Division of Human Nutrition and Epidemiology, Wageningen
University, Wageningen, Netherlands, and the Wageningen Centre for Food
Sciences, Wageningen, Netherlands.

Background: Several epidemiologic studies found no effect of egg consumption
on the risk of coronary heart disease. It is possible that the adverse
effect of eggs on LDL-cholesterol is offset by their favorable effect on HDL
cholesterol.

Objective: The objective was to review the effect of dietary cholesterol on
the ratio of total to HDL cholesterol.

Design: Studies were identified by MEDLINE and Biological Abstracts searches
(from 1974 to June 1999) and by reviewing reference lists. In addition, we
included data from a more recently published study. Studies were included if
they had a crossover or parallel design with a control group, if the
experimental diets differed only in the amount of dietary cholesterol or
number of eggs and were fed for =" src="/math/ge.gif" border=014 d, and if
HDL-cholesterol concentrations were reported. Of the 222 studies identified,
17 studies involving 556 subjects met these criteria.

Results: The addition of 100 mg dietary cholesterol/d increased the ratio of
total to HDL cholesterol by 0.020 units (95% CI: 0.010, 0.030), total
cholesterol concentrations by 0.056 mmol/L (2.2 mg/dL) (95% CI: 0.046, 0.065
mmol/L; 1.8, 2.5 mg/dL), and HDL-cholesterol concentrations by 0.008 mmol/L
(0.3 mg/dL) (95% CI: 0.005, 0.010 mmol/L; 0.2, 0.4 mg/dL).

Conclusions: Dietary cholesterol raises the ratio of total to HDL
cholesterol and, therefore, adversely affects the cholesterol profile. The
advice to limit cholesterol intake by reducing consumption of eggs and other
cholesterol-rich foods may therefore still be valid.