: How many eggs is acceptable to be eaten for a day? How many eggs is acceptable to be eaten for a day? Note: I have a little bit of extra cholesterol.

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You can eat as many eggs as you want, as long as you eat other kinds of food as well to balance out your diet. Here's why:

Eggs contain a substantial amount of cholesterol. However, as you can read here, a substance called lecithin in the eggs inhibits the absorption of cholesterol, so most of the cholesterol in the egg will not be taken up by your body.
Actually, eating eggs will increase only "good" HDL cholesterol, and has no effect on "bad" LDL cholesterol.
Also, this study explicitly states that people who eat lots of eggs are less likely to have elevated cholesterol.
Here's yet another study which says that eating eggs will not increase cholesterol or risk for heart disease. And here's another one. Here's a review which comes to the same conclusion.

I could give you more studies, but I think you get the point. The notion that eggs are bad for your cholesterol is simply false.

Conclusion: Eat all the eggs you want!