Posted on 08/19/2017 10:11:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A handful of walnuts may be an effective weight loss tool.
Walnuts are rich in omega-3 fatty acids and other substances and, in moderation, have been linked to reduced risk of obesity and diabetes. They may also efficiently reduce appetite.
Researchers now may have found out why. They had nine hospitalized obese patients drink, on five consecutive days, either a smoothie containing 48 grams of walnuts (1.7 ounces, or about 14 walnut halves and 315 calories) or a placebo smoothie identical in taste and calorie content. Then, after a month on their regular diet, the patients returned for a second five-day trial, with placebo drinkers on the first trial receiving a walnut smoothie, and vice versa.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sample of 9 people?
Funny, we thought of the same thing...
LOL
He was definitely my favorite Soprano’s character.
I wish that worked with Walnut Extract too.
Whole or chopped walnuts can be expensive.
That some TV show? No wonder it was a mystery guy.
Junk science completely. They didnt control the diets outside of the hospital.patients may have been eating things that have similar constituents to walnuts. I dont believe...but i could be wrong...but i dont think.mri will detect tissue activity .i think you gotta inject something that “lights up” a petscan. Or somtin mo sophisticated. Plus cake isnt always high fat
..high sugar...hi complex carbs for sure...example of high fat food..ice cream...and whatyya know...walnuts
All things considered your Leeness, walnuts are wonderful and nutritious. Local walnut trees lay fallow as no one knows how to harvest, identify, cure and make the effort to enjoy them. They have a rind that blackens your hands when removing it. It is a lost art and will remain lost. I pick walnuts off a local tree, dry them, then peel and crack. It is a long process but worth the time. A part of my life, immeasurably adding more than the secular person succumbs to “go to the store” and leave it alone. No. Not in my world view.
If you’re talking about black walnuts, man, those things are hard. You need a special nutcracker for them.
Thank you for that information. I do know that in my neighborhood, there are many walnut trees planted near the curbs. They make good ornamental trees, because they don’t always grow very high, and their trunks remain narrow, not breaking up the sidewalks.
During the spring, these walnut trees grow drooping clusters of bright purple blossoms. The walnut blossom is very similar to what’s seen on a mature Wisteria vine, only the Wisteria is more pale in color, and falls apart more quickly than what blooms on the walnut trees.
Hillary just looked up from her double bourbon neat.
“Did somebody mention ‘Nutcrackers?’.
I had a special-made nutcracker, named after ME!
Lost art?
Mainly it’s just a matter of setting them out to dry where squirrels can’t get them.
Our method was to put the walnuts in loose woven potato sacks and hang in the smokehouse [a garage will do if you can keep squirrels out] until dry... then we’d lay them out on the driveway and roll over them with the truck until the dried hulls crumbled and broke away.
Now if they’re black walnuts then there’s the problem of cracking them... my folks would just get a bunch of uncles or neighboring old men and kids together with hammers and rocks and a pick while she prepared a big meal or baked apple pies. Sometimes dad would get the ice cream maker out and let it churn.
Anyone who wanted to eat had to produce a good container of nuts, usually about a pound each. Time flew by while everyone yacked and told jokes and BS stories. Then everyone would eat.
When everyone was gone mom had bags upon bags of good clean walnuts ready for cookies and cakes.
Now with no family and few neighbors I had to make a deal with the macaw. He can crack a black walnut perfectly without smashing it. He keeps one half and drops the other onto a sheet. I just take the halves as he goes and pick the meat out. Only drawback is he’ll only crack up to ten at a time.
Interesting. I have the genetic marker that is noted by the issue that I taste walnuts as bitter and somewhat fuzzy.
I cannot eat them, I am not allergic to them, they just taste bad.
I can eat and enjoy all other tree and ground nuts.
My grandfather was a tenant farmer, and Road laborer, and worked many other hard jobs such as logging, ditch digging etc... Lived in northern Michigan raised 13 children and was probably one of the strongest man I’ve ever known. He stood 5 foot 5.
I don’t remember much of him because I was very young (and he spoke Czech) but I do remember (and my uncles reminded me several times) that he would take a walnut in his hand and with his thumb and his curled index finger - crack that Walnut to open it. The man was just plain hard as nails.
A study based on 9 people popping a few walnuts.
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