The Diet Diary

Does your blood pressure rise when you are stressed? Everyone’s does. But, researchers at Penn State have found that eating pistachios can reduce the amount your blood pressure rises during stress– and that’s a good thing if you have high blood pressure!
Now it turns out that pistachios don’t necessarily reduce the blood pressure when you […]

Adding macadamia nuts to your diet has been shown to reduce total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride levels compared with the standard American diet.
In a study conducted by Dr. Amy E. Griel, recent Ph.D. recipient in nutritional sciences form Penn State, a group of participants with slightly elevated cholesterol levels were […]