Nuts For Life
The news is always good when it comes to nuts. Once a slimmer’s foe, nuts are well and truly back on the weight-loss menu. To check out the latest evidence, download our report, Nuts and the Big Fat Myth.
Nuts every day can help manage cholesterol, diabetes and body weight. Yes, high-fat foods can help manage weight. It’s time to stop being fat-phobic and instead ditch the low-fat diet. A successful weight management diet doesn’t mean avoiding the foods we love like nuts. The website can be found here: https://www.nutsforlife.com.au/
The Nuts For Life Factsheet for Pistachios – read more here: Nuts_For_Life-Pistachio-factsheet
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Pistachios, a beautiful green nut coated in purple and pink, originally grew in the deserts of Asia and the Middle East. Now grown in Australia, they still need hot summers and cold winters to bear fruit. Pistachios are botanically related to mangoes, peaches and nectarines. Just like fruit and vegetables, pistachios are packed with a wide range of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytochemicals beneficial to health. Enjoying a handful of nuts (30g) regularly as part of a healthy diet may reduce your risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes and can help with weight management.1–5 So eat two serves of fruit, five serves of veggies and a handful of nuts every day. A 30g serve of pistachios kernels is about 50 kernels.
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Most pistachio production world-wide is directed at the consumer snack food market rather than the ingredient market. The snack food market for pistachios effectively also buys the shells at the same price! Almonds, peanuts, cashews, macadamias etc all only sell the kernel. About 85% of the Australian crop is sold into the snack market.
Pistachio nuts, eaten as part of a healthy diet, can increase the levels of antioxidants in the blood of adults with high cholesterol, according to Penny Kris-Etherton, Penn State distinguished professor of nutrition, along with an international team of nutritional scientists. Previous research has shown that pistachios also lower lipids and lipoproteins, which benefits heart health.
Nuts For Life
Nuts for Life is an initiative of the Australian Nut Industry Council.
The Australian Nut Industry Council (ANIC) represents the Australian tree nut growing industries (almonds, chestnuts, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pistachios and walnuts) and supports the activities of the Nuts for Life. Nuts for Life is a collective nutrition communications/ education initiative by the Australian Tree Nut Industry (Australian tree nut growers as well as processors, packers and importers). It is funded through voluntary contributions from the Australian Tree Nut Industry as well as government matched funds for R&D activities through Horticulture Australia and has been in operation since 2003.
New Research
Recipe Booklet
The Nut Report
Translated Indian Pistachio Health Factsheets
Why should nuts, including pistachios, be part of a healthy daily diet?
Decades of research has highlighted the significant health benefits of nuts.
A recent scientific review[1] found that eating a handful (28g) of nuts a day, compared to eating
no nuts, was associated with:
- ↓ 25% reduced risk for coronary heart disease
- ↓ 22% reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease
- ↓ 22% reduced risk of dying from all causes
- ↓ 21% reduced risk for cardiovascular disease
- ↓ 11% reduced risk of dying from cancer.
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