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Nutritional Tip: Add Walnuts to Everything!
We’re crazy about walnuts and we have good reason to be. The following is a quick summary straight from How Not to Die by Michael Greger, MD:
Walnuts are the single most powerful nut for cardiovascular protection and longevity. Dr. Greger highlights two landmark studies:
- Eating just a handful of walnuts a day (about 1 ounce) dramatically improves endothelial function within hours of consumption — better than almost any other food tested.
- In the massive Nurses’ Health Study and other cohorts, people who ate nuts (especially walnuts) at least 5 times a week had up to a 50% lower risk of fatal heart attack and lived significantly longer than non-nut eaters.
Walnuts stand out because they have the highest plant-based omega-3 (ALA) content, the richest source of antioxidant polyphenols among nuts, have the unique ability to reduce LDL oxidation and inflammation and are proven to improve artery flexibility and reduce blood pressure.
Greger’s bottom line: “If you’re only going to add one thing to your diet to live longer, make it walnuts.”
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Recommended Books for Food Healing
- The China Study by T. Colin Campbell
- Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman
- Healing with Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford
- The Plant Paradox by Steven R. Gundry
- How Not to Die by Michael Greger
- Super Immunity by Joel Fuhrman
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
- The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner
- Anti-Cancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber
- The Longevity Diet by Valter Longo
- Food Rules by Michael Pollan
- Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition by T. Colin Campbell
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer
- Food is Medicine by Pierre Jean Cousin
- The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz
- The Food Therapist by Shira Lenchewski
- Clean Gut by Alejandro Junger
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