Are eggs healthy to eat regularly?
Yes, for the great majority of healthy adults. There's a general nutrition principle worth applying here: almost no food is dangerous in reasonable amounts, and almost any food becomes questionable if it's the only thing you eat. Eggs aren't a special exception to that rule in either direction. They don't need a specific "regular use" warning that, say, oats or chicken breast don't also technically deserve if eaten to total exclusion of everything else.
What made eggs feel like they needed special scrutiny was the cholesterol concern, and that's had a fairly public correction over the past couple of decades. Current UK advice does not set a specific limit on how many eggs most people can eat as part of a varied diet. Guidance also pays attention to saturated fat and overall dietary patterns, rather than treating the cholesterol in eggs as the whole story. That's a meaningfully different position from where guidance sat a generation ago, and it's worth knowing that update happened rather than carrying forward outdated caution.
The useful check is whether eggs are one part of a varied diet rather than most of it. A few eggs most mornings, alongside otherwise varied lunches and dinners, doesn't raise any particular flag under current guidance. People with specific conditions (familial cholesterol disorders, existing cardiovascular disease) are the exception, and should follow their own doctor's advice over general guidance like this.
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