Save your heart! Eat peanut butter!

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This is the best news I've heard all week - a new study from a team at Harvard Medical School says snacking on peanuts or peanut butter at least five days a week can nearly halve the risk of a heart attack.

Their findings support earlier studies on the cardiovascular benefits of peanuts and peanut products. Researchers say peanuts and peanut butter could also be helping by reducing inflammation in the body, or boosting the health of blood vessels around the heart.
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  • added June 25, 2009

14 comments // Save your heart! Eat peanut butter!

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    I don't think I'll be able to persuade my friend and my nephew who are both allergic... :D

    FreshPlastic
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    People laughed at me for eating peanut butter with a spoon but WHO'S LAUGHING NOW, EH?

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    emmaboswood
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    yea, but only if the salmonella doesn't kill you first

    wanamoka
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    yum! yay! I have been looking for an excuse to start eating peanut butter again!

    Found_Avenue
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    When I was a kid-you know when dinosaurs ruled the world-we used to buy Oxheart penut butter. If you haven't already surmised that they knew then what the article is reviving now, then know this too: We were lucky enough to buy it in its natural state. Unless you Current web readers go to a natural health food store and buy it, you've probably never seen peanut butter in its natural state. The peanut oil separates and floats to the top, so that you have to stir it before you can spread it on bread. Am still not sure whether back in 10,000 B.C.(1964) the Oxheart producers processed organicly grown peanuts as you'd find in a natural health food store of today. But any step away from adulterating vegatable oils into saturated fat is an improvement. Some probiotic yogurt, a peanut butter sandwich on toasted 12 grain bread and a banana make a fortifying breakfast for anyone. Even if you're working outside in Winter.

    PressCore
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    i will live 4eva............................

    onemalefla
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    def. buy the natural stuff. it tastes so much better and it's better for you.

    MissAmanda
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    I use peanut butter under daily basis, but I am confused again. One serving of peanut butter I use consists about 16g of fat, that is about 25% of the DV. I dont understand the justification here, too much fat is bad as long as it is not from peanut butter.
    Maybe what does not kill you make you stronger, mmh. I am totaly lost, again.

    dablaq
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    I feel like Bubba from Forrest Gump whenever I list off all of the things I like with peanut butter, in comparison of his shrimp dishes. ha!

    ariellejazmin4
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    Mmmmmmmm...Great News!!!

    I have a taste for peanut butter sandwiches. These are especially delicious when dipped in a cup of coffee (provided it is made using coffeemate or evaporated milk). Have to eat it quick before it falls apart....

    Another good way of eating this scrummy food is in big dollops on slices of crisp apple....the contrast between the sticky peanut butter and crisp clean apple is exquisite..

    plas
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    So curries saves your brain and peanut butter revives your heart - next if they say chocolate makes sweet healing love to your colon i will probable drop a brick!

    DarkVeneficusss
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    pretty interesting information, maybe i will eat more peanuts...

    when i showed this to my mom she said, "so does eating a Reese's count?" hahaha

    devilsplaything

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