A recommended amount of daily intake for a 2000 calorie diet is 300 mg. Heart doctors actually recommend 200 mg. We are really at 600-800 cal diets so even lower amounts should be taken in. I found out mine had shot up lately with blood tests and come to find out it was my protein drink. It contained 50 mg per serving and I take 2 a day plus other meat and food items through the day. Switched from that brand to a 0 mg of cholesterol per serving and lab tests showed a significant drop. Paid to much attention to the carbs, protein, and cals on label but forgot this part.

That is a good warning for us all. Since dietary cholesterol has been de-emphasized after the mania about it during the last low-fat phase of the fad diet cycle (we are in the low-carb phase now,) it has dropped off the radar for most but is still an important thing to keep track of. There are a lot of things that can get us into trouble nutritionally, and this helps to remind us to take more of a "whole diet" (for lack of a better term - maybe classically balanced diet) approach rather than the extreme deprivation of one particular demon nutrient.