Comments on: The Banks Have Been Bailed Out – But Where Is All Of The Money Going? (Part Two)

By: Health Info

Health Info — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:51:16 +0000

PISTACHIOS ARE A HEART-HEALTHY TREAT

New research on the heart health benefits of pistachios means we can toss these popular nuts into the “party mix” of good-for-us nuts — right along with the almonds, macadamia nuts, walnuts, cashew nuts, Brazil nuts and pecans we’re already enjoying with no guilt. A study from Pennsylvania State University finds that these tasty nuts deliver a handful of cardiovascular benefits, more so than other nuts. To learn more about the study and its implications, I consulted lead author Sarah K. Gebauer, PhD, the graduate student who worked on the study, currently a post-doctoral research associate at the USDA Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center in Maryland.
GOING NUTS FOR PISTACHIOS
Current government nutrition guidelines recommend consuming between 20% to 35% of calories from fat. In the study at Penn State, participants followed one of three diets: one diet (control group) was lower in total and saturated fat than the typical American diet and consisting of 25% fat… another diet included one serving (approximately 1½ oz) of pistachios and a total of 30% fat… and a third diet included two servings of pistachios (roughly three ounces) with a total of 34% fat. All diets were rich in fruit, vegetables, lean meats and whole grains. For the two nut-eating groups, nuts were consumed as a snack, roasted and salted, and in food that incorporated roasted, unsalted pistachios.
Dr. Gebauer and her colleagues found that both pistachio-rich diets significantly decreased blood levels of blood lipids including LDL, the so-called “bad cholesterol,” while also lowering systolic blood pressure. According to Dr. Gebauer, the beneficial effects of pistachios on cardiovascular disease risk factors may be attributed to their unique nutrient profile, including their…
• Low level of artery-clogging saturated fat and rich level of healthful monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids.
• High fiber content.
• Large amounts of disease-fighting antioxidants such as lutein, gamma-tocopherol and beta-carotene.
• High levels — the highest of all commonly consumed nuts — of plant chemicals known as phytosterols, which may help decrease LDL-cholesterol.
HAVE A HANDFUL A DAY
Eating nuts is just one element of an overall heart-healthy diet, Dr. Gebauer emphasizes. Experts generally recommend that you consume 1½ ounces of nuts per day. For more information about pistachios or to get a free copy of a new brochure of pistachio recipes from celebrity chefs such as Todd English, Gale Gand and Michelle Bernstein, visit the Web site of the Western Pistachio Association at http://www.westernpistachio.org.

Source(s): ??Sarah K. Gebauer, PhD, post-doctoral research associate, USDA Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland.?

By: Connie

Connie — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:31:58 +0000

You’ve made me blush.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:29:17 +0000

Connie: thanks for the compliments. I haven’t euphemized to much. If that would help me to bed a paticular woman, I had already lost interest in her.
I don’t like living in Miami much, I’ve been to Norcross GA once for a week. Nice people in GA. Panasonic had thier regional traing center there. It was just prior to cellphone technology hitting the market.
I was there to learn negative logic truth tables, quite an oxymoron, I’d been using them my whole life. Boolean to boot.
Perhaps Michelle would not mind forwarding you my E-address, I could always use another friend. At 50 I don’t have that many, although the ones I have are very special and unique. I have been rather reclusive lately and that’s not good.
Connie, do you blog here often, and what is a nice lady like you doin’ on a blog like this anyway.
Connie, I too wish your mother well.
Connie, Michelle it is late and I need to say goodnight.

Oh yeah, where has ZL been hiding herself?

By: Connie

Connie — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:43:06 +0000

Al, I wish I lived in Florida. You sound like a very interesting person. I am 52 and tired of the attention I get from the young men here in Atlanta. They seem to think that their tired euphemism work on getting woman into bed.

I guess it’s because they think that I am their age(35-40). I don’t seem to attract men in my age group. Maybe its because I laugh too much at life around me. You seem like the kind of person who finds humor in lots of things. You never seem to take yourself too seriously.

I like that

Connie

By: Al

Al — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:07:26 +0000

Michelle: If not for your blog and your link to that petition, I would never had known of this rediculously fast in & out procedure that the insurance companys were trying to make standard practice, or the petition for that matter. You are bringing so many issues to light and I have signed a number of petitions found here.
And I do believe you when you agree that women are not the only victims, and it is mainly men who enact the laws.
I did have an out of body experience, how strange that was. My life was saved at great expense, airlifting me crosstown at rush hour was the only way to the Ryder Trauma Center at JMH. I would not have lasted the trip via ambulance. I wanted to stay after the wrist surgery and go back to my pain pump, but they had already spent a fortune patching me up and I never even received a bill. Another day’s stay would have been prudent, but in this case I really don’t have any complaints at all, and I recovered 100%.
There are many issues in this world that are kept silent.
Your good work has brought a lot of them to light for me.
Our network news is so biased and useless, that one would never know about anything that is happening in the world today if that was ones only source of information, and they never follow a story up if they feel their ratings will be higher reporting a celebrities nipple slip, or some other idiotic nonesense.
Again, thank you for helping me to be informed about some of the less popular issues.
Besides if I am going to be angry and frustrated, and I will be, at least you have helped me focus that anger constructively.