 Though alfalfa sprouts are indeed too risky to eat, eggs are linked every year to literally a thousand times more food poisoning. Salmonella-infected eggs cause a foodborne epidemic every year in the United States, sickening more than 100,000 Americans annually. Food poisoning aside, though, what about that egg? What if the egg is boiled hard to kill off any bugs? Now yes, eggs are the single most concentrated source of cholesterol in the diet, but we're not talking an omelet here, just a single egg a day. How many think just one egg a day is harmful to our health? Harmless? Helpful? The answer is that an egg a day is indeed helpful. If we want to die an early death, the Harvard Physician Study, 20,000 doctors followed for 20 years, and those who ate just one egg a day or more had significantly higher all-cause mortality, meaning the more eggs we eat, the shorter we may live, whereas eating oatmeal every morning based on a new study of 40,000 women may extend our lives.