Posted on 05/10/2010 7:04:05 PM PDT by Willie Green
More research backing up the cholesterol-lowering benefits of eating nuts indicates that for most people, consuming two handfuls of nuts a day appears to work better than one.
The findings apply to tree nuts such as walnuts, almonds, pistachios, macadamias, hazelnuts and peanuts.
Although peanuts actually belong to the legume family, they are considered to have many of the same nutritional components as walnuts, almonds and other tree nuts.
Researchers who examined the results of 25 previous studies on the health effects of nut consumption found a dose-related improvement in participants' blood-lipid levels.
The results are published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The lead author of the latest research, Joan Sabaté, says the study "confirms that nuts, indeed, lower cholesterol."
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The International Red Meat Council better get to work funding its own study.
The International Red Meat Council better get to work funding its own study.
It's not the fat, it's the carb's fault.
Ditto. How often recently Atkins was proved right.
Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan and Britney Spears will all live forever.
I’m living proof that there is something to this. 4 years ago I started eating a peanut butter on whole grain sandwich for 5 days a week, out of sheer necessity...working much more than twelve hour days and commuting a hour each way while raising a family left me little time so I made them Sunday night and grabbed one every morning as I ran out of the house. I gained weight as I didn’t even have time to get to the gym because of work deadlines compiling up one after another and I was doing computer work so I didn’t walk around too much...but my cholesterol has dropped way way down...lower than ever before.
Er ... since when is a peanut a “tree nut”? I’ve never seen a peanut tree.
You need to read the article more carefully.
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