Pecans

PECANS

Benefits of pecans:

- Help stabilize lood pressure:

+ Eating pecans is an important part of stabilizing your blood pressure, a study developed by the National Institutes of Health. Research has shown that a daily diet of 4-5 pecans is an effective way to lower blood pressure.

- Preventing breast cancer:

+ Pecans are rich in oleic acid, which is found in olive oil. Researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago have recently found in oleic acid lab tests that are capable of inhibiting the activity of a gene in cells that cause breast cancer.

- Good for the heart:

+ Researchers from Loma Linda University in California and New Mexico in Las Cruces, have confirmed that eating pecans daily helps reduce "bad" cholesterol levels in the blood.

- Prevent prostate cancer:

+ Pecans have been shown to be effective in treating symptoms of prostate cancer in men.

+ In addition, a study in Purdue Universitys recent laboratory found gamma-tocopherol, the type of vitamin E found in pecans, capable of killing prostate cancer cells.

- Weight control:

+ Some studies show that eating nuts helps to consume energy, the amount of body fat actually decreases.

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