How many eggs is too many eggs?

Usually 12 whole eggs a day for me (6 in the morning and 6 at night). (Gotta eat the yolk and the white to properly digest it, as protien digests best with fat)

The stuff that clogs your arteries and kills you from heart disease isn't eggs but processed carbs and laziness.

Right now my diet has cut out all carbs bar a bowl of porridge in the morning. It is high in protien and raw veggies, no milk, only natural yoghurt (for the calcium and friendly bacteria)

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=205747171

There is a good topic about it here, with sources from medical studies which have shown that eggs dont give you high cholesteral.

How To Read a Blood Test:

There's a few internet sources that give brief explanations of how readings should be interpreted, but of course given that it's the web, you can't be sure of accuracy...

How to interpret your blood test results
How To Read & Interpret Your Laboratory Blood Test Results - Publication Of The Seattle Treatment Education Project - February 1993

I'm still having a search through the Medical Textbooks for some reliable info and I'll get back to it.

With regard to low iron, we're both probably iron deficient without being anaemic. The reasons for this can be varied, but it's slightly more common in women than men (regular blood loss). Athletes are also more prone because by the nature of our activity our bodies require more iron for increased red blood cell consumption (red blood cells house hameoglobin, of which iron is an important constiutent, and hameoglobin transports oxygen around the body).

The recommended daily intake of iron (according to the UK Food Standards Agency) is 8.7mg a day for men and 14.8mg a day for women. Iron can be taken in supplemental form but has a range of not-very-pleasant side effects including constipation, diarrhoea, nausea and an upset tummy and it can make your poo turn black (oo-er!!). Keeping your diet rich in Vitamin C also helps as it aids absorption of iron (iirc that was what I was concerned about when taking iron supps before - taking them on their own was a bit wasteful). Iron is stored in teh body and you can overdose on it, so the upper threshold for iron supplementation is 17mg per day.

Food is still the best way to get your iron in, with liver, meat, beans, nuts, dried fruit, whole grains (such as brown rice), fortified breakfast cereals, and most dark-green leafy vegetables (such as watercress and curly kale) being the best soruces.

For more see Bupa, a discussion of low Hm in the book Runners by John A. Hawley (Google Books).