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prominent in health circles, it’s only a matter of time before a clever entrepreneur invents a tiny pocket nut opening gadget. We’d still have the same shell disposal issue though. I suppose I can live with it given that walnuts are purported to lower the bad cholesterol that contributes to car- diovascular disease. There was no mention in the study published by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a marvelous bedtime reading companion, if the work required to open the aforementioned wal- nuts reverses their value. There’s more to their worth. If you add walnuts to the daily diet of those at high risk of developing diabetes, choles- terol lowers and there’s improved blood vessel cell wall function. This nugget from the journal “BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care.”
On the flip side, walnuts are fatty and people who snack on them too much are likely to increase body fat.
This poses a bit of a conundrum. Eat walnuts to lower cholesterol, but don’t eat too many because you’ll get fat, which might lead to cardiovascular disease. If you eats lots, the energy expended in breaking open the shells and then traipsing back and forth to the garbage pail with handfuls of shells might reduce body fat gained from eating them, especially if said garbage pail is, oh, four kilometres away. I also discovered that walnuts decrease aortic endothelin and tumor necrosis factor alpha as well as improve endothelial cell function. Who knew?
What to do with all this new informa- tion?
For the longest time, I’ve been putting sliced banana on my morning cereal. I don’t know if there are genuine benefits to bananas, but they taste good. Now I plan to buy a bunch of walnuts, spend a half hour each week hammering them to smithereens and adding them to the morning mix. That’s a half hour workout I won’t need to do of anything else. That’s not nuts, is it? Writer Richard Bercuson is looking for someone to research the health benefits of potato chips.
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