Almonds

George said:

I started eating almonds for their health benefits, and now have an almond
habit. I wonder how much is too much?

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Some days I don't eat any, but other days I'll eat 6 oz. of lightly roasted,
unsalted almonds at a time. That's 80+ grams of total fat, very little of
which is saturated. I am not at all overweight and am active.

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So is this too much for good health?

You are probably cutting out other foods that you should be eating.
Almonds don't have much omega 3 fatty acids to balance against the
high omega 6 content. Walnuts are high in omega 3 fatty acids.

You should be safe with 3 oz of nuts a day according to some published
results.

--
Ron

Suggest you check out the followoing article: Feldman, The
Scientific
Evidence for a Beneficial Health Relationship Between Walnuts and
Coronary Heart Disease, Journal of Nutrition 2002, 132:1062S-1101S.

Abstract:
The author and four independent experts evaluated the intent and
quality of scientific evidence for a potential beneficial health
relationship between the intake of walnuts and the reduction and
prevention of coronary heart disease. The report also addresses the
supporting evidence for the health benefit of other tree nuts and
selected legumes. Compared to most other nuts, which contain
monounsaturated fatty acids, walnuts are unique because they are rich
in n-6 (linoleate) and n-3 (linolenate) polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Walnuts contain multiple health-beneficial components, such as having
a low lysine:arginine ratio and high levels of arginine, folate,
fiber, tannins, and polyphenols. Though walnuts are energy rich,
clinical dietary intervention studies show that walnut consumption
does not cause a net gain in body weight when eaten as a replacement
food. Five controlled, peer-reviewed, human clinical walnut
intervention trials, involving approximately 200 subjects
representative of the 51% of the adult population in the United States
at risk of coronary heart disease were reviewed. The intervention
trials consistently demonstrated walnuts as part of a heart-healthy
diet, lower blood cholesterol concentrations. None of these studies
were of extended duration that would be essential for evaluation of
the sustainability of the observed outcomes. These results were
supported by several large prospective observational studies in
humans, all demonstrating a dose response-related inverse association
of the relative risk of coronary heart disease with the frequent daily
consumption of small amounts of nuts, including walnuts.

Marilyn

Many who eat more of something like almonds will eat less of something
that is less healthy, and so there is the claim that almonds (or
whatever) are healthy. Then there are the "marker" studies, which
show that almonds will lower cholesterol, but what they don't tell you
is if the almond eaters live longer, though again, they probably do
because they are not eating twinkies (or whatever), which are even
worse. I used to eat a lot of nuts, but then almost died (not
necessarily from the nuts, though they probably contributed to the
digestive problems), and now I would eat coconut, dark chocolate, and
raisins instead, for example

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