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Walnut Studies
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Back in 1993, the original Walnut Study from Loma Linda University made
headlines around the world, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Why all the excitement? Because Loma Linda University had broken new
ground. They were the first to find that walnuts in a controlled diet reduced
LDL (bad) cholesterol and heart disease risk significantly more than the
Step 1 diet that was then recommended by the American Heart Association.
In other words - they proved, scientifically, that food really can be your medicine.
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In April 2000, another landmark walnut study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study, a follow-up to the
1993 Loma Linda study, was conducted at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. Researchers had 49 men and women with high
cholesterol incorporate walnuts into a healthy Mediterranean diet, substituting a handful of walnuts a day for some of the
monounsaturated fat in the diet. Participants lowered their "bad" LDL cholesterol by almost 6 per cent and heart disease risk
by 11 per cent beyond what would be expected from the Mediterranean diet alone.
The Loma Linda study participants substituted walnuts, one of nature's richest sources of polyunsaturated fat, for
saturated fat. The Barcelona participants substituted walnuts for another healthy fat. Barcelona scientists also remarked
on the ease of incorporating walnuts into the diet. According to researcher Juan Carlos Laguna, Ph.D., "That's the main
point of the study. You eat a normal amount, like five or six walnuts a day. That's something you can do every day without
any problem."
You can find Walnuts in many of your favorite Wholefood Farmacy foods such as Phi Plus, Cranberry Phi, Coco Cherry Phi
and TropiPhi.
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