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Do Dietary Saturated Fats Increase the risk of heart disease?-By Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript: At the onset, I would like to impress upon you that eggs and saturated fats have been slandered as bad for your good health and wellbeing of all humans. Then research studies showed that cholesterol being a saturated fat, amounting to 373mg per egg, does not seem to raise cholesterol levels in the blood the way other cholesterol-containing foods do, such as trans fats and saturated fats. An egg has 11 grams of fat, of which only 3.3g are saturated. Repeating the role, dietary cholesterol as it relates to a person’s total blood cholesterol count appears to be smaller than previously thought. Family history may have much more to do with your cholesterol levels than how much dietary cholesterol is in your food. The bigger threat to your cholesterol levels is food that is high in ...