Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Another wonderful Abundance Living Food ingredient (remember that it contains 26 organic , natural ingredients) , pecans.

-Pecans have it all. Besides being one of the most elegant, versatile and rich-tasting nuts you can put on your plate, they offer a package of health benefits that's hard to beat.

-Blood Pressure. While eating pecans and other nuts can't cure high blood pressure, they are an important part of the DASH Diet.

-Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension

-Breast Cancer. Pecans are a rich source of oleic acid, the same type of fatty acid found in olive oil. Researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago recently found in laboratory tests that oleic acid has the ability to suppress the activity of a gene in cells that may trigger breast cancer.

-Heart Health. Researchers from Loma Linda University in California have confirmed that when pecans are part of the daily diet, levels of "bad" cholesterol in the blood drop.

-Prostate Health. The same natural compound that gives pecans its cholesterol-lowering power, has also been shown to be effective in treating the symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate gland in men.

-Weight Control. Contrary to the widely held, but mistaken belief that "nuts are fattening," several population studies found that as nut consumption increased, body fat actually decreased

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