Anyone still have a playable Hellcats or Leyte?

External Since: Dec 16, 2003 Posts: 288

GordonL wrote:
> On Dec 5, 8:52 pm, Michael Emrys wrote:
>> in article
>> d7261188-a413-4b51-9109-2e971b5b8....RemoveThis@y43g2000hsy.googlegroups.com,
>> glau....RemoveThis@mac.com at glau....RemoveThis@mac.com wrote on 12/5/07 11:21 AM:
>>
>>> Have a packet of peanuts with that beer Michael?
>> Only one? Well, no matter. Although I dearly love peanuts (or most any kind
>> of nuts for that matter), a recent tendency toward diverticulitis has made
>> them off-limits for me, alas.
>>
>> Michael
>
> Believe it or not, I've taken to eating the odd handful of peanuts as
> a natural way to lower my cholesterol... hang on <rustle, rustle> Yep,
> meta-analysis in the "Journal of Nutrition", October 2005 showed that
> "In three studies where participants ate 50 to 100g of almonds a day
> their total cholesterol decreased by two to 16 percent and LDL
> cholesterol by 2 to 19 percent, compared to those on a control diet.
> The same was true in two peanut studies (consumption of 35 to 68g per
> day), one pecan study (72g per day) and four walnut studies (40 to 84g
> per day). The results for macadamia nuts (50 to 100g per day) were
> "less convincing".
>
> Overall, they concluded that eating between around 50 and 100 g (1.5
> to 3.5 servings) of nuts five or more times a week, as part of an
> overall diet with total fat content making up around 35 percent of
> energy and high in mono- and/or polyunsaturated fatty acids may
> significantly reduce total and LDL cholesterol.
>
> One does enjoy the odd bit of nutty research.
>

Peanuts are not nuts though, believe it or not - they're legumes. You
need to eat proper nuts, like almonds or walnuts.

Paul

External Since: Jun 23, 2003 Posts: 148

Michael Emrys wrote:
> in article 5fa21ad5-4097-4456-9585-c5c64b69f700.DeleteThis@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com,
> GordonL at glaurie.DeleteThis@mac.com wrote on 12/6/07 12:38 PM:
>
>> Believe it or not, I've taken to eating the odd handful of peanuts as
>> a natural way to lower my cholesterol...
>
> If it helps, I still eat peanut butter (the creamy kind, alas), though not
> as often as I used to. I have to be careful about tomatoes and anything else
> with seeds as well, like strawberries. It's the pits as a lot of things I
> really love are either off-limits or have to be in a form that robs them of
> some of their pleasure-yielding capacity.
>
> Michael
>

I'm opting for honey nut Cherrios...

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