NATIONAL HEART FORUM FOR CORONARY HEART DISEASE PREVENTION

"There is now broad consensus and weight of evidence that dietary factors are one of the fundamental determinants of coronary heart disease. Dietary fat, and in particular saturated fatty acids, are widely accepted as being the factors most likely to increase blood cholesterol." (Source: ‘Looking to the future - Making coronary heart disease an epidemic of the past’ National Heart Forum 1999).

FAMILY HEART ASSOCIATION

"The amount of cholesterol synthesised by the body varies to a small extent with intake of dietary cholesterol, but saturated fat is a more powerful influence. Excess saturated fat in the diet increases blood cholesterol." (Source: Family Heart Digest Fact Sheet: Cholesterol & Lipoproteins 2000).

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

"Dietary cholesterol can raise total blood cholesterol, but this effect is less important than that of saturated fatty acids." (Source: Nutritional Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease, DoH 1994)

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION

"...the American Heart Association's new guidelines now permit an egg a day, rather than only three a week - so long as you carefully control cholesterol in the rest of your diet. The new guidelines, which are based on an analysis of hundreds of recent scientific recent studies, serves as a model for dietary recommendations by other groups such as the American Dietetic Association." (Source: ABC News / Daily News 17 December 2000)

The following article discussing the AHA recommendations on eggs has been provided for your reference:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/ahadiet001005.html - "An egg a day…"