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South African researchers have quantified exactly how much various types of nuts can lower your LDL cholesterol. The four winners:

Peanuts
Walnuts
Almonds
Pecans

Next time Grandma wants you to slam a slice of apple pie, consider this.

The filling is apples and depending on how natural it is kept, it can be sugar, flour, spices. The filling including the apples is around 100-120 calories.

A top and bottom crust adds 250-350 calories to the pie.

So if you love the taste, choose one of the following options. A couple of bites and STOP. Or just eat the apples and leave all the crust. You get the taste and you control the calories.

A lot of restaurant food can have so much sodium that one meal can contain a whole day’s or more of sodium.

If you have high blood pressure, this is a dangerous thing. But everyone should be concerned about taking in excessive amounts of sodium. And seriously, natural food prepared at home has very little sodium in most cases. Processed foods and restaurant foods can be off the charts. For example:
A foot long meatball sub from Subway has 2580 mg of sodium. (It also has over 1000 calories so your diet is going sideways with this sandwich regardless of how active you are)

A grilled stuffed burrito from taco bell has 2080 mg of sodium and even thier lower calorie options like the steak burrito supreme fresco style (with 350 calories) has 1260 mg of sodium.

A McDonalds Quarter Pounder with cheese has 1240 mg of sodium and a whopper from burger king has 1420 mg of sodium

If you eat fast food regularly, rethink your choices and whether there are better options for all aspects of your health.