1968: American Heart Association recommends limiting eggs to 3 per week. Why? Eggs contain 200mg cholesterol. Dietary cholesterol was assumed to raise blood cholesterol (it doesn't). Therefore eggs cause heart disease (they don't). Restaurants removed eggs from menus. People stopped eating breakfast staples. Egg Beaters (egg whites only) became popular. Meanwhile, research was accumulating: Study after study showed dietary cholesterol has minimal impact on blood cholesterol for most people. Your liver produces 1000-1400mg daily and adjusts production based on intake. Eating 200mg from eggs barely registers. But the guidelines remained. 40 years of egg panic. 2015: Dietary guidelines finally remove cholesterol limits. No fanfare. No admission of error. Just quiet revision. "Total cholesterol is no longer a marker of concern." Translation: "We were catastrophically wrong for 40 years about one of nature's most nutrient-dense foods. Oops. Moving on." The egg panic cost: - Two generations avoiding a perfect food - Public trust in nutritional science - 40 years of people eating Egg Beaters instead of eggs What did we gain? Nothing. Heart disease rates continued climbing. The egg panic was based on: - Flawed cholesterol hypothesis - Misunderstanding of dietary vs blood cholesterol - Industry lobbying against eggs (cereal industry benefited) - Institutional momentum once policy was set Eggs were exonerated in 2015. Most people never got the memo. They're still eating egg white omelets and avoiding yolks. Because they remember "eggs are bad" but missed "actually never mind." Your grandmother ate eggs daily and lived to 90. Experts told you to avoid them for 40 years. Who was right?