Mercola reports the FDA warned Diamond Food that citing peer-reviewed research on the omega-3 fats in walnuts would make the nuts "new drugs" needing approval, and urges support for the Free Speech about Science Act (HR 1364), which would let producers cite legitimate studies.
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Cancer news: Whole walnuts may help prevent prostate cancer
Mice on a high-fat diet containing whole walnuts had slower prostate tumour growth and lower tumour weight than controls on soybean-oil diets, plus lower prostate weight, IGF-1, resistin and LDL at 18 weeks, across a 24-week feeding study.
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AICR Study: Walnuts Show Promise of Preventing Breast Cancer (PR)
In an AICR-funded study in Nutrition and Cancer, mice genetically prone to breast cancer whose diet included walnuts, equal to about 2 ounces a day for a person, developed tumors at less than half the rate of mice eating none. It is an animal study, an AICR nutritionist cautioned.
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Eating walnuts fights breast cancer
Mice fed walnuts for life were 50% less likely to develop breast cancer than mice on a typical diet, and had fewer and smaller tumors when cancer did appear, Elaine Hardman's team found. The dose matched 2 ounces a day for a person; the protective ingredient is unknown.
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What nut is tops in antioxidants?
Joe Vinson told an American Chemical Society meeting that walnuts carry nearly twice the antioxidants of any other commonly eaten nut, at 2 to 15 times the potency of vitamin E, and that about seven a day may be enough. Roasting degrades those antioxidants.
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healthy Recipes: Chili with Walnuts
A chili for six built on lean ground turkey, toasted walnuts, kidney beans and tomatoes. The notes say swapping turkey for red meat is a step toward preventing colon cancer, and that walnut omega-3s have been shown to lower cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure.
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