Perhaps one of the most unexpected and novel findings in nutritional epidemiology in the past 5 y has been that nut consumption seems to protect against ischemic heart disease (IHD). Frequency and quantity of nut consumption have been documented to be higher in vegetarian than in nonvegetarian populations. Nuts also constitute an important part of other plant-based diets, such as Mediterranean ...

Frequent nut consumption is associated with lower rates of coronary artery disease (CAD). Also, nut-rich diets improve the serum lipid profile of participants in dietary intervention trials. However, nuts are fatty foods, and in theory their regular consumption may lead to body weight gain. Because obesity is a major public health problem and a risk factor for CAD, clinicians and policy makers ...

BACKGROUND Atrial Fibrillation is highly prevalent in clinical practice affecting approximately 2.3 million people in USA and 4.5 million people in European Union. The aim of the study was to examine the association between nut consumption and incident atrial fibrillation. METHODS Prospective cohort of 21,054 male participants of Physicians' Health Study I. Nut consumption was estimated using...

BACKGROUND The nutritional quality of soybeans (Glycine max) is compromised by a relative deficiency of methionine in the protein fraction of the seeds. To improve the nutritional quality, methionine-rich 2S albumin from the Brazil nut (Betholletia excelsa) has been introduced into transgenic soybeans. Since the Brazil nut is a known allergenic food, we assessed the allergenicity of the 2S albu...

BACKGROUND Cyperus esculentus tubers (tiger nut) are one of the ancient food sources known to humanity. It is traditionally used in the Middle East to stimulate sexual arousal in men. However, there has been no scientific evidence about its assumed aphrodisiac properties. This study aimed to investigate the influence of tiger nut on the copulatory behavior of sexually active male rats. METHOD...

BACKGROUND Betel nut chewing is related to several kinds of cancer, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes. Whether it is associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality, however, remains unclear. OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate the association between betel nut chewing and CVD and all-cause mortality. DESIGN A baseline cohort of 56,116 male partici...

AIMS To assess the extent of the problem of nut allergy in schoolchildren within the Severn NHS Trust. To determine how well informed schools are about the condition, their policies and attitudes, and the action that would be taken in the event of an acute reaction. METHODS A questionnaire addressed to the head teacher was sent to 100 randomly selected mainstream schools in the Severn NHS Tru...

The presence of hidden nut and tree nut allergens in foods can result in serious health issues, necessitating a method capable of detecting and quantifying them at trace levels using a single robust assay. To find specific peptide markers that can be used to determine the presence or absence of specific nuts in food, proteins unique to 11 tree nuts (almond, pecan, cashew, walnut, hazelnut, pine...

Allergic reactions to tree nuts can be serious and life threatening. Considerable research has been conducted in recent years in an attempt to characterize those allergens that are most responsible for allergy sensitization and triggering. Both native and recombinant nut allergens have been identified and characterized and, for some, the IgE-reactive epitopes described. Some allergens, such as ...

The generalisation of the four-dimensional Kerr-de Sitter metrics to include a NUT charge is well known, and is included within a class of metrics obtained by Plebanski. In this paper, we show how this can be generalised to give new Kerr-Taub-NUT-de Sitter metrics in arbitrary dimensions D ≥ 6. The solutions contain three non-trivial continuous parameters, namely the mass, the NUT charge, and a...