Nutrition Experts Produce White Paper Regarding Almond Nutrition Findings

White Paper Should Be Big in Promoting Almond Consumption

By Patrick Cavanaugh, Ag Information Network

Making sure people know about the nutritious levels of almonds. Elena Hembler is the Associate Director of Nutrition Research at the Almond Board of California. She oversees the nutrition research program. She noted there is now a consensus statement on how essential almonds are for our health.

“And those consensus statements have been drafted. Nutrition experts drafted them into a White Paper recently accepted in a peer-reviewed journal,” noted Hembler.

Having this publication from this group of influential experts gives a third-party endorsement to almond research, which validates all of the findings, providing the research with so much more credibility.

We’re excited about this paper and plan to disseminate it to audiences worldwide, including consumers, health professionals, and food professionals. Also, we will target public health and policy medicine audiences as well to get this information into the hands of the people who are forming the nutrition guidelines and creating nutrition programs for people who want to improve public health.

Spanning two decades, almonds have over 200 peer-reviewed publications on their nutritional profile and health benefits. Research from top scientists and universities globally has uncovered that almonds may help support heart and gut health, weight management, skin health, exercise recovery, and more.

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“It was a journey that took about 20 years. And we started down it, not really knowing, like most research how it is going to turn out,” noted Richard Waycott President and CEO of the Almond Board of California. “Fortunately, the focus both for walnuts and almonds was on cholesterol and heart health, and we were able to have redundant trials, clinical trials, published in the papers that revealed that, yes, indeed increasing almond consumption does help with cholesterol,” he said.

And that it reduced the bad cholesterol and increased the good cholesterol.

“That was our first stake in the ground, and we’ve built on that,” noted Waycott.

Investing in good health research, is a major priority with the Almond Board. “Clinical trials are not cheap. They cost upwards of $3 million a year, and they usually take multiple years to accomplish and then you got to get published. That’s definitely a foundation of the Almond Board’s work,” said Waycott.

And in further evidence, according to the largest study of its kind, people who ate a daily handful of nuts were 20% less likely to die from any cause over a 30-year period, than those who didn’t consume nuts.

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