Eating Pistachios May Help Reduce Cardiovascular Events

A new study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition says eating pistachio nuts decreased total cholesterol and LDL (bad) cholesterol compared with a control diet that had no nuts.One of the control groups was fed a step 1 (low fat) diet without pistachios. Two other groups were fed the same diet with low doses of pistachios (32-63 gms/day) and high doses of pistachio nuts (