Posted on 08/23/2021 1:01:04 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Participants at risk for cardiovascular disease who ate pecans during an eight-week intervention showed significant improvements in total cholesterol, triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or "bad" cholesterol, in a study conducted by researchers in the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences.
"This dietary intervention, when put in the context of different intervention studies, was extremely successful," said Jamie Cooper, a professor in the FACS department of nutritional sciences and one of the study's authors. "We had some people who actually went from having high cholesterol at the start of the study to no longer being in that category after the intervention."
Researchers saw an average drop of 5% in total cholesterol and between 6% and 9% in LDL among participants who consumed pecans.
For context, researchers referred to a previous meta-analysis of 51 exercise interventions designed to lower cholesterol that reported an average reduction of 1% in total cholesterol and 5% in LDL cholesterol.
Fasted blood lipids showed similar improvements among the two pecan groups while post-meal triglycerides were reduced in the group that added pecans. Post-meal glucose was lowered in the group that substituted pecans.
"Whether people added them or substituted other foods in the diet for them, we still saw improvements and pretty similar responses in total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol in particular," said Cooper, who also serves as director of the UGA Obesity Initiative.
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I’ve been able to get very high LDL numbers down. But I can’t make those HDLs to budge a bit.
Don’t know. Aren’t they rich in zinc?
Candied pecans are yummy on a salad.
Puh-kahn is the correct pronunciation.
#3 in my nabe.
Pee-can!!!
Walnuts and other nuts are good for cholesterol.
They do.
There IS no correct way. Depends on where you were brought up.
next to peaches, same-same
Great....I add tons of Pecans to my Pecan Ice Cream along with whip cream.
Why are you overly concerned about Omega-6?
The fat to eliminate entirely is Trans Fat. This fat is in processed foods like potato chips and fast food.
The fat to consume judicially is Saturated Fat. This is the fat used to cook things, like butter and corn oil.
Omega-6 is a Polyunsaturated Fat that is considered essential. Monounsaturated Fats, like Omega-3 in fatty fish like salmon, are considered even healthier, but both are normal and necessary.
Pecans are VERY healthy. The OP is an official study, but good press about pecans is not new. Another good article, from.... Good Housekeeping 2017:
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/diet-nutrition/a47166/health-benefits-of-pecans/
I’ll stick with eating only meat & drinking only water.
Nuts contain lectins which bind & prevent the absorption of critical nutrients like calcium. No thanks.
Glazed Pecans on vanilla ice cream with a splash of cold coffee, milk and chocolate syrup are a weekly staple for me.
May have to increase to twice a week now.
Didn’t know it was so healthy
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Oh don’t tell me this! I love pecans.
I agree...puh-kahn...
I’ve got 4 old pecan tree’s, with all the rain we’ve had this year it’s going to be a bumper crop. They’re 30 to 40 percent bigger than last years crop.
I West Texas that would be door number three.
LOVE pecans...
Our fig tree is figging out and producing about a dozen bigger than golf ball size figs per day until late September.
Then, our yellow cheery tomato bushes are producing about a dozen good size tomatoes daily.
Our tree foxes are ODing on their favorite food of the day.
Our fresh produce people have fresh strawberries, big tomatoes, green beans and peaches in daily. Their fresh corn on the cob gets bigger and tastier each day. We wrap an ear in wet paper towel and nuke it for about 2 minutes. Then some butter and seal salt are added while it is fresh on our plate. “Their fresh produce” will continue until about the second week in November.
So our almond/walnuts in a bowl on a kitchen counter are way down in daily grabs.
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