How Does Brazil Nuts Help Reduce Cholesterol?
Amazingly,
compared to the control group who ate no nuts at all, just a single serving of
four Brazil nuts almost immediately improved cholesterol levels. LDL—the “bad”—cholesterol
levels were a staggering twenty
Here’s the truly insane part:
The researchers went back and measured the study participants’ cholesterol
thirty days later. Even a month after ingesting a single serving of Brazil
nuts, their cholesterol levels stayed down.
points lower just nine hours
after eating the Brazil nuts. Even drugs don’t work nearly that fast.
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Normally, when a study comes
out in the medical literature showing some too-good-to-be-true result like
this, doctors wait to see the results replicated before they change their
clinical practice and begin recommending something new to their patients,
particularly when the study is done on only ten subjects, and especially when
the findings seem too incredible to believe. But when the intervention is
cheap, easy, harmless, and healthy—we’re talking just four Brazil nuts per
month—then in my opinion, the burden of proof is somewhat reversed.
I think the reasonable
default position is to do it until proven otherwise.
More is not better, however.
Brazil nuts are so high in the mineral selenium that eating four every day may actually bump you up
against the tolerable daily limit for selenium. Nevertheless, this is not
something you have to worry about if you’re only eating four Brazil nuts a
month.
DR. APPIAH
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