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Monday, February 12, 2007

Nutty news


Monday blues? Have a nut!
Apparently there's a connection between eating nuts and preventing heart disease. The Mayo Clinic --no slouches there--reports that nuts, if part of a healthy diet, help ward of clotting, which can lead to a heart attack. (If the Mayo Clinic doesn't sway you, my mother has preached this gospel to me for years--as recently as Saturday--and as we all know, Moms know everything!)
What's your experience? Have nuts helped you?

2 comments:

Charlotte Kennedy said...

Brazil nuts are a super source of selenium, a promising anti-cancer trace mineral that also promotes DNA repair and boosts immunity. Just two medium nuts contain enough selenium to perhaps reduce prostate, colon and lung cancers!
(Also, the American psychic, Edgar Cayce, once said that whoever eats 6 almonds per day, would never have to fear cancer!)

Allison Kennedy said...

Thanks, Mom!