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Almonds as
Part of Healthy Diet, Cut Cholesterol
(New York, Reuters Health, 8/19/02)
The Almond Board of California and the Canadian government
studied 27 people who had high cholesterol. The researchers
divided the participants into 3 groups and assigned them all a
diet of 420 calories daily, but varied the snack by group.
Subjects in the first group each ate a snack of about 2 ounces
of almonds; the second ate about 1 ounce of almonds and half a
muffin and the third had a low-fat, whole-wheat muffin instead
of almonds. After a month, the LDL (bad) cholesterol levels of
the participants who ate 2 ounces of almonds daily had
decreased by nearly 10%, suggesting that substituting almonds
for other foods in an overall healthy diet may help lower
cholesterol.
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