What's unhealthy about the yolk?

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I'm pretty sure that high cholesterol/triglicerides, all that bad stuff comes from our own bodies, not so much from what we eat. My mother's bad cholesterol stays over 400 all the time - she's a walking heart attack that just hasn't happened yet. This is a 54 year old - otherwise completely fit woman who looks younger than I do. She does weights (nautilus, so it's not like real weight lifting - you know the old do 12-20 reps one set per machine whole body routine) every other day. Cardio on non weight days. Almost purely vegetarian diet - not even milk, butter, margarine, just veggies and fish. I believe that her excess carbs are stored as saturated fat and cholesterol in her body after her glycogen stores are full.

I eat dozens of eggs, red meat, fish from a can, green veggies - avoid rice, potatoes, dried beans - in other words, strictly control my carbs - only eat what I need, when I need them. Mine has gone from her kind of levels to what they are now - good for a change.