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Oxidized Cholesterol May Be the Culprit
For 15 years, an 88-year-old Denver man has been consuming 24 soft-boiled eggs a day. This particular story made it to the New England Journal of Medicine because a researcher from the University of Colorado wondered how this compulsive cholesterolcuisine might be affecting the man's health. To his surprise, the scientist found that despite a cholesterol intake close to 6,000 milligrams a day - well above the recommended maximum of 300 milligrams per day - the man had a normal blood cholesterol and showed no signs of heart disease.