Apparently eating steak, eggs and butter is now considered reckless behaviour. We’ve reached the point where people are genuinely frightened of the cholesterol in an egg but will happily eat a breakfast cereal containing more ingredients than a fucking chemistry experiment. And somehow I’m the one who needs educating about nutrition. Cholesterol is used to make hormones, vitamin D and bile acids. Your liver produces it every single day. Yet we’ve managed to turn the word cholesterol into something people are terrified of. Most people couldn’t explain what cholesterol actually does if their life depended on it. But they’ll happily tell me I’m going to die from eating eggs. .