The only thing I can easily find is that they have saturated fat - but it takes 4.5 eggs to have as much saturated fat as 1tbsp of butter.
Aside from 1 year of strict vegan diet, I've eaten an average of 4 eggs with 1tbsp butter mostly daily for my entire adult life (I'm 34), and also ate eggs regularly in childhood, and I seem to be in excellent health with no known issues. But I'm curious what I should be watching for.
The evidence base on eggs is a funny one because of:
1. Genetic traits influencing response to dietary cholesterol.
2. The effect of baseline dietary cholesterol on the impact of additional dietary cholesterol (if you're already consuming ~300mg/d cholesterol, adding more on top is unlikely to increase risk by much).
3. The effect of baseline CVD risk on the impact of egg consumption.
Generally when we take this into consideration, we see a linear increase in risk from increased egg consumption. For example this paper suggests that the higher your genetic risk for CVD, the higher the increase in risk from egg consumption, but even those with lower CVD risk see a ~6% increase in CVD events per 3 eggs/week increase: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652....
Additionally replacing the 1tbsp butter with plant oils would likely reduce ACM risk by ~17% (http://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.0205), but I'll be the first to admit that there's nothing that really replaces butter on a taste basis :D. Got to find the happy balance between health and hedonism IMO!
The only thing I can easily find is that they have saturated fat - but it takes 4.5 eggs to have as much saturated fat as 1tbsp of butter.
Aside from 1 year of strict vegan diet, I've eaten an average of 4 eggs with 1tbsp butter mostly daily for my entire adult life (I'm 34), and also ate eggs regularly in childhood, and I seem to be in excellent health with no known issues. But I'm curious what I should be watching for.