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The Health-y Nut
Some may say I'm a bit of a nut, of is that a health nut? Either way, I hope you enjoy this
article provided by Wholefood Farmacy (spelled with an "F").
Some
fairly recent analyses of the Adventist Health Study findings showed a
remarkable relationship between eating nuts and whole wheat bread, and
experiencing a reduced risk for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). These
findings were the subject of a research article submitted by Dr. Fraser
and his colleagues to the Archives of Internal Medicine, and published
in its July 1992 issue.
The most outstanding findings of
this part of the overall study show that nut consumption reduces the
risk of both fatal and nonfatal coronary heart disease. Again, the
researchers looked for a variety of ways to disprove the finding,
adjusting the data for differences in age, sex, smoking habits,
exercise, relative weight, and hypertension. The protective qualities
of nuts remained statistically significant and essentially unchanged in
magnitude.
Those
individuals who ate nuts one to four times a week had 26% decrease in
the risk of suffering from definite nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI)
and a 27% decrease in the risk of definite fatal coronary heart disease
as compared to those who ate nuts less than once a week. However, those
individuals who ate nuts five or more times a week had a 48% decrease
in the risk of definite nonfatal heart attack and a 38% reduced risk of
definite
fatal CHD as compared to the group who ate nuts less than once a week.
Age-
and sex-adjusted analyses of the associations between nut consumption
and definite CHD were calculated for various subgroups within the
Adventist Health Study. Results were examined to see if the association
between nut consumption and CHD held up in different segments of the
population. The
consistency was quite remarkable and adds to the researchers' confidence in the importance of these findings.
Both
"ever-smokers" and "never-smokers" showed a 46% decrease in the risk of
coronary heart disease when they ate nuts five or more times a week.
Study participants with normal blood pressure showed that eating nuts
more than five times a week reduced their risk of coronary heart
disease by 60% percent, and hypertensive individuals enjoyed a 30%
decrease in risk compared to similar subjects who ate few nuts.
Nuts
are widely used here at The Wholefood Farmacy and you can find them in
many of our foods. In addition, the next time you go to the grocery
store, spend a few minutes looking at all of the different types of
nuts and
consider them in place of other processed food snacks such
as potato chips and cheese puffs. You'll love them, your kids
will love them and your whole family will be much better off. Now
is the best time to put your kids on a path that leads to health,
vitality, longevity and happiness.
Thank you to the Wholefood Farmacy for this interesting article, a source of delicious organic snacks for your family.
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