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TiPs to BuY NuTs

Where to buy nuts? Buying them at a health food store may assure you of greater freshness and purity. Refrigerate or freeze any nuts that you don't plan to eat up pretty quickly. Given that different nuts offer somewhat different health benefits, you may choose to buy containers of mixed nuts. The nuts at Costco are both low-priced and high in quality and taste. Their Kirkland Mixed Nuts are the best I have ever tasted. That's a pleasing mix of cashews, almonds, hazelnuts, pecans, Brazil nuts, peanut oil, and salt. Costco also sells bags of individual nuts, such as almonds and pecans. We keep nuts around all the time, and enjoy some every day, confident that we're getting lots of health benefits along with all that good flavor.

beNeFiT oF nUtS.......

Even though nuts are relatively high in fat calories, those fats are primarily the "good" polyunsaturated and monounsaturated kinds, which can help lower cholesterol. Nuts contain oleic acid, the same heart-healthy fat that is found in olive oil. Walnuts in particular contain high levels of ALA, an omega-3 fat. Omega-3 fats may help the body reduce inflammation that can lead to heart disease and cancer. They can also lower LDL cholesterol, the dangerous kind; almonds seem to be particularly good at lowering cholesterol. The Harvard Nurses Study found that women who eat just five ounces of nuts per week (one ounce = about 18 almonds) had a 35% lower risk of heart disease than women who seldom or never ate nuts