The Right Chemistry: Egg-cholesterol panic wasn't warranted

Alfred Hitchcock, who struck fear into the hearts of movie audiences with Psycho and The Birds, had a personal terror of his own. The famous director suffered from ovophobia, the fear of eggs. In a 1963 interview, he claimed to have never tasted one because he was repulsed by the sight of an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid. Hitchcock was not alone in looking at eggs with trepidation in the 1960s. But it wasn’t the look of the egg that was terrifying people, it was what the