Nuts to you (... and you, and you)

BMJ 1998;317:1332-1333 ( 14 November )

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Nuts to you (... and you, and you)

Eating nuts may be beneficial $---$ though it is unclear why

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A generation ago the prudent diet for preventing coronary disease was dominated by negative advice. Poverty and food rationingin the 1930-50s had led to the promised land of the 1960s, butit was a monotonous greasy landscape of cakes, pies, chips, sausages,and fry ups, dominated by dairy and processed foods. The "younever had it so good" life was bad for the heart. Prophets ofdoom emerged from communion with molecules, denouncing cholesteroland issuing dietary commandments, almost all phrased "Thou shaltnot eat x." They were less explicit on what should be eaten. Itseemed to be what remained after eliminating the favourites orcutting off the fatty bits. Foods were judged in one dimension $---$ whatthey did to blood cholesterol.¹ Meanwhile a vegetarian subculture,regarded as cranky and unscientific (as many of its adherentswere), was promoting fresh and natural foods of vegetable origin.

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