A lawsuit claims government guidelines on cholesterol were tainted by the egg industry

Flickr/Antti T. Nissinen The US government put out its new dietary guidelines on Thursday, which include a recommendation that Americans limit the amount of cholesterol they consume. The US Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services puts out these guidelines every five years. But the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that promotes a vegan diet, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the USDA and the HHS over a claim that a com...