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The Effects of Nuts on Heart Disease, Type 2 Diabetes and Risk Factors
In 2017, Dr. Dean Ornish published on his website that he now was changing his Reversing Heart Disease program to include nuts in the diet. That had reversed what for him was almost a 40-year tradition of advising patients with severe heart disease to avoid nuts. The high nut and seed consumption was associated with about a 20% reduction in developing any kind of cardiovascular disease or dying from it. So they were talking about intake of nuts in average of 50 grams a day.