Walnuts and Health
Smart For The Heart
- Eating a handful of walnuts every day is an easy way to boost your daily nutrition. Due to the strength of evidence supporting cardiovascular health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a qualified health claim for walnuts in March 2004.1
- A 2009 meta-analysis published the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, reviews the heart health benefits of walnuts on 365 participants from several trials. When compared with control diets, diets supplemented with walnuts resulted in a significantly greater decrease (10.3 mg/dL) in total cholesterol (TC) and LDL “bad” cholesterol (-9.2 mg/dL). In addition, according to the studies in the analysis, walnuts provided significant benefits for certain antioxidant capacity and inflammatory markers and had no adverse effects on body weight.
Scientific studies showing how walnuts can help cholesterol, blood pressure and inflammation:
Effects of walnut consumption on blood lipids and other cardiovascular risk factors: a meta-analysis and systematic review
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Walnuts and fatty fish influence different serum lipid fractions in normal to mildly hyperlipidemic individuals: a randomized controlled study
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The Scientific Evidence for a Beneficial Health Relationship Between Walnuts and Coronary Heart Disease
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Acute Effects of High-Fat Meals Enriched With Walnuts or Olive Oil on Postprandial Endothelial Function
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Dietary alpha-linolenic acid reduces inflammatory and lipid cardiovascular risk factors in hypercholesterolemic men and women.
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1 “Supportive but not conclusive research shows that eating 1.5 ounces of walnuts per day, as part of a low saturated fat and low cholesterol diet, and not resulting in increased caloric intake may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.”
