A new study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has found that eating pistachios may help lower levels of bad cholesterol. For the study, researchers recruited 28 adults who had high levels of bad (LDL) cholesterol and had them eat three different diets for one month each. The first was a low-fat diet without pistachios, the second was a healthy diet with one daily serving of pistachios, and the third was the healthy diet with two daily servings of pistachios. investigators found that the participants' bad cholesterol levels dropped by 9 percent during the month they ate one serving of the nuts per day, and by 12 percent the month they ate two servings per day. Read full story >
(The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
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