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Instead, the doctor looked at her blood work and was absolutely shocked.
The Diet: 5 Months of Eggs at Every Meal
The woman didn't set out to make a statement or to prove anyone wrong. She simply started eating eggs as a convenient, affordable source of protein. Breakfast was an omelet or scrambled eggs. Lunch became egg salad or a frittata. Dinner was quiche, shakshuka, or another egg-based dish.
She ate an egg in some form at every single meal for five months. That's roughly 15 eggs per week, or about 60 eggs per month—far beyond the old recommendations that people limit themselves to a few eggs per week.
When she went in for her routine checkup, she prepared herself for a lecture about her eating habits.
