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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Perhaps I will start eating them again. These are sizable changes in cholesterol.
I wonder if almonds do the same?..................
all nuts from my experience are good
My daily salad gets almonds or walnuts
How many pecans does one have to eat per day?
Our desert is usually fresh fruit (peaches right now!) and a scoop of yogurt. Maybe I should sprinkle on some pecans.
You are probably on the right track in avoiding Omega-6 fats. For perspective on the study, it only lowered Cholesterol by 5%. Let’s say you had a pretty bad number, like 250. Going down 5% only gets you to 237.
I’ve always seen walnuts and almonds, sometimes pistachios, get the press for health benefits. Glad to see the southern pecan get a little love! Makes sense, though, since pecan is in the walnut botanical family.
Just hope it doesn’t cause the price to go up. They’re expensive enough as it is!
Just don’t go overboard. They can cause kidney stones:
Don’t forget your flavonoids. :)
paid for by the pecan lobby? love p’can pie
Pecan Pie cures everything. Sometimes a scoop of ice cream &/or whipped cream is needed. Cup of good coffee with it is recommended.
Most people have problems getting LDL down or getting HDL up.
I will say going lower carb really brought down my total cholesterol.
I always eat chocolate ice cream with almonds every night near bedtime
University of Georgia...
Is Pecan pronounced “Pa-kawn”, “PEE-can”, or “Puh-KAHN”?
That is what I was thinking!
Awesome. I freakin’ love pecan pie... with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
That’s my favorite way to eat pecans.
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