Eating a small handful of walnuts every day for two months might help lower bad cholesterol and a blood protein linked to heart disease in healthy older white adults.

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Walnut-enriched diet reduces fasting non-HDL-cholesterol and apolipoprotein B in healthy Caucasian subjects: a randomized controlled cross-over clinical trial.

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2014 Mar

The study found that eating 43 grams of walnuts every day for 8 weeks lowered two blood fats linked to heart disease in older adults, just like the claim says.

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Walnut-enriched diet reduces fasting non-HDL-cholesterol and apolipoprotein B in healthy Caucasian subjects: a randomized controlled cross-over clinical trial.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2013.11.005

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