Pistachios Are Good For Your Heart

I am so glad to hear this because I absolutely LOVE pistachios. I buy the ones from Turkey AKA Antep pistachios. These are the ones I grew up on until California cornered the market. You can still get them from www.nutsonthenet.com. They are distributed by Zenobia. My local drugstore carries them also.

clipped from foodconsumer.org A daily dose of pistachios offers potential heart health benefits New research, published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, finds a 4-week pistachio diet, containing moderate amounts of heart healthy fat, improves risk factors for heart disease with no weight gain The study, conducted by James N. Cooper M.D., of George Mason University and Michael J. Sheridan, Sc.D., of Inova Fairfax Hospital, found that in people with moderately high cholesterol levels, a daily diet consisting of 15% of calories from pistachios (about two to three ounces or one to two handfuls of kernels) over a four-week period favorably improved some blood lipid levels. The study further affirms the FDA's first-ever qualified claim for heart health, issued in July 2003, which states: "Scientific evidence suggests, but does not prove, that eating 1.5 ounces per day of most nuts, such as pistachios, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol may reduce the risk of heart disease."