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Walnut Studies
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. 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. Accordingto 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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