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No...it's not about eating nuts in the sun. It's two
separate issues, both good for you.
Let's Go Nuts
Most people have limited their intake of nuts or don't eat them at all on bad advise from dieticians
who have advised that nuts are full of fat and therefore fattening and not
good for you. WRONG!
That's like saying if you eat sugar you'll become sweet and if you eat oil, you'll become oily.
Oil from nuts are natural fats and natural fats are good for you. Your body needs fats. If you don't
give your body the natural fats it needs, it will make fat and the fat it makes
is tough to get rid of.
Proof? Our country became the country of fat people when we went on the fat free diet craze.
Even Dr. Atkins with his famous diet went back to fats.
Research on the nutritional value of nuts is huge. Both the British Medical Journal and the Archives
of Internal Medicine have published studies on the positive effects on nuts in our diets.
And as far back as 1993, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that women enrolled in
the Iowa Women's Study who ate nuts on a regular basis had a 40 percent reduction in
heart disease risk.
As for nuts making you fat, many studies have proven that nuts can actually help keep your waistline
in check. Their fat content fills you up on much less then if you were to
eat other foods like pretzels.
So go ahead and eat nuts. They are good for you. And choose the raw kind...they are the most
nutritious!
Sunshine...Throwing Some Light On The Subject
For years the medical profession and sunscreen manufacturers have been threatening us with severe
cancer for staying in the sun too long. We have been told to cover up, put on
gobs of sunscreen, or stay out of the sun.
Now can you imagine the shock when a group of researchers discovered that sunlight wasn't the
pure evil that they led us to believe? Can you imagine the reaction when they
discovered that sunlight actually decreases the mortality rate in cases of colon, breast, ovarian and prostate cancer?
These conclusions came from a study that was conducted between 1984 and 1995 in 24 U.S. states
by doctors from the National Cancer Institute and published in Occupational and
Environmental Medicine. Deaths from ovarian, colon, breast (in women only), and prostate cancers were examined
to determine the impact of sunlight on these diseases.
Contrary to conventional belief, they found that the sunniest areas had significantly lower death rates
from each of the four types of cancer listed above.
People whose jobs required a great deal of sun exposure had lower rates of colon cancer mortality,
and women in similar jobs with a great deal of sun exposure had fewer breast
cancer deaths.
So maybe you should be eating nuts while basking in the sunshine after all! Just don't over do
it...either one of them.
Yours in good health,
Ira Marxe
CEO, Good Health Supplement
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