Nuts For A Healthy Heart

How can those little pistachios, which used to be red when I was young, help fight heart disease? Well it turns out that they can relax blood vessels and lower blood pressure.

As posted on www.drweil.com a study from Penn State that put young men on a diet which included having 34% of calories from fat and 8% saturated fat plus three ounces of pistachios found that their blood pressure was lower and their arteries were more relaxed.

The study was sponsored by the California Pistachio Commission and was reported at an Experimental Biology conference in April 2007.

Dr. Weil points out that the landmark Nurses Health Study at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston has proven that people who ate more than five ounces of nuts per week had 1/3 fewer heart attacks than those who didn't eat nuts.