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Eating about two and a half airplane snacksâ worth of nuts every day helps lower total cholesterol and âbadâ LDL cholesterol, and improves the ratio of total cholesterol to âgoodâ HDL cholesterol, a study reports.
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Researchers pooled the results of 25 clinical trials that involved 583 participants over all. The study reported that eating just 2.4 ounces of nuts of any kind was associated with declines of 10.2 milligrams per deciliter in bad cholesterol, a drop of about 7.4 percent, and 10.9 milligrams in total cholesterol, or 5.1 percent.
The study, which appeared in the May 10 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, was partly financed by a nut-industry foundation, and two of the authors receive research money from other organizations representing the nut and peanut industries.
But the authors noted that some of the trials they analyzed had no corporate financing, yet came to similar conclusions.
âNuts are rich in unsaturated fats, and that is a main driver in lowering cholesterol,â said the lead author, Dr. Joan Sabaté, a professor of nutrition at the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University in California. âThey are the richest source of protein in the plant kingdom, and they also contain fiber and phytosterols, which compete with cholesterol to be absorbed. All these nutrients have been demonstrated to lower cholesterol.â
The effect was most pronounced among people with higher LDL cholesterol to begin with and among those who were not obese. The more nuts they ate, the greater the effect.
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Health Guide: Cholesterol
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Researchers pooled the results of 25 clinical trials that involved 583 participants over all. The study reported that eating just 2.4 ounces of nuts of any kind was associated with declines of 10.2 milligrams per deciliter in bad cholesterol, a drop of about 7.4 percent, and 10.9 milligrams in total cholesterol, or 5.1 percent.
The study, which appeared in the May 10 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, was partly financed by a nut-industry foundation, and two of the authors receive research money from other organizations representing the nut and peanut industries.
But the authors noted that some of the trials they analyzed had no corporate financing, yet came to similar conclusions.
âNuts are rich in unsaturated fats, and that is a main driver in lowering cholesterol,â said the lead author, Dr. Joan Sabaté, a professor of nutrition at the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University in California. âThey are the richest source of protein in the plant kingdom, and they also contain fiber and phytosterols, which compete with cholesterol to be absorbed. All these nutrients have been demonstrated to lower cholesterol.â
The effect was most pronounced among people with higher LDL cholesterol to begin with and among those who were not obese. The more nuts they ate, the greater the effect.
One of the articles I was reading saying that diabetic people are concentrating on blood sugar levels but equally as important is cholesteral.
Unfortunatly the home cholesteral testing kits are not too reliable and only give total cholesterol and you really need a blood test for a complete breakdown of all the factors.
I got one of those meters with a usb you just plug into the computer and it downloads the readings
the software comes up with all kinds of charts and graphs you can print off
just like you can take them along to the doctor to go over with you.
My consultations are so short its hardly worth sitting down.
Mind you it looks good if you have a colour printer with all the graphs and pie charts
And just great for getting rid of visiting relations who have overstayed their welcome
I would imagine that would get rid of overstaying visitors... just like playing all those old family films would do lol
LDL is bad, and HDL is good, I thought of the fat floating for HDL although I first thought that you were saying eating a half loaded plane full of nuts was recommended which sounded good to me, but not easy for even me. WHEW!!! Thank-you for posting about these, I love nuts since they have lots of protein and I got some unsalted Dry Roasted Peanuts which are not as good as low sodium nuts and yet that helps me control how much I love. I know some cholesterol is good for health, but it must be that diabetics have way too much of it.
Sodium ZERO!!!