Don't Drop Dead - Eat Nuts

[Guest guest]

July 30, 2002

NUTRITION NEWS FOCUS

" Nutrition news is important. We help you understand it! "

 

Today's Topic: Don't Drop Dead - Eat Nuts

 

Many studies have shown that eating nuts on a regular basis reduces

the risk of heart disease in men and women. The studies have ranged

from observational ones to controlled feeding trials where people were

given weighed packs of nuts to eat. The latest installment of this

story is based on a large observational study of U.S. physicians.

 

Over 21,000 men were asked about their diet and followed for 17 years.

Sudden cardiac death in men who consumed nuts two or more times per

week was about half the rate of men who rarely or never ate nuts.

Total coronary heart disease death was reduced by about a third.

However, the rate of nonfatal heart attacks was not associated with

eating nuts. The study appeared in the June 24, 2002 edition of the

Archives of Internal Medicine.

< http://archinte.ama-assn.org/issues/v162n12/abs/ioi10632.html >

 

HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: About 4,200 of the

participants ate nuts two or more times weekly, and an equal number

didn't eat nuts. But the actual number of deaths this analysis is

based on are only around 200. Big observational studies can only

suggest ideas that need to be tested in interventions. But the

interventions with nuts have been restricted to changes in serum

lipids - studying heart attacks would require too many people and far

too much money.

 

 

********************************************************************

Please recommend Nutrition News Focus to your family and friends.

If you like, point your browser to

http://www.nutritionnewsfocus.com/cgi-bin/birdcast.cgi

where you'll find an easy recommendation form.

 

NNF Licensing: You can license Nutrition News Focus for your

newspaper, magazine, radio, television show, etc. For details,

please write to Ken.