Nuts help lower cholesterol
We all know that Oatmeal will lower cholesterol. Nuts can help do the job, too according to researchers at Loma Linda University School of Public Health in California. They claim that eating nuts reduces the “bad” LDL cholesterol and improves the blood lipids profile.
They collected data on 583 men and women who had participated in 25 nut consumption trials in which they consumed 2.3 ounces of nuts a day, over a period of three to eight weeks. Nut-eaters were compared to a control group that did not eat nuts and none of them took medication to lower blood lipids.
They found that eating 2.3 ounces of nuts a day, which is about one-third of a cup, reduced total cholesterol levels by 5.1 percent and “bad” LDL cholesterol by 7.4 percent. It also improved the ratio of LDL cholesterol to “good” HDL cholesterol by 8.3 percent and caused a decrease of 10.2 percent in triglyceride levels among people with high levels of those blood fats.
Last Updated on June 16th, 2010
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Nice read. Blood pressure and hypertension have been interests of mine for a long time, and I think that a balanced holistic approach is overall the most promising. You have to eat healthy, exercise, and regularly watch your blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and then things should be not too hard. We have lots of info on all that on Blood Pressure Experts, everyone interested is welcome to take a look.
Oh and don’t believe what they often tell you about good and bad cholesterine.. there’s a trick to it that most people don’t know about!