Eating Walnuts Slows Cancer Growth, Laboratory Study Finds

Here's an article with data to be trusted.

"Snack-sized quantities of walnuts slow cancer growth in mice, reports a Marshall University pilot study published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nutrition and Cancer.

Researcher W. Elaine Hardman, Ph.D., of Marshall's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine said the study was designed to determine whether mice that got part of their calories by eating walnuts had slower breast cancer growth than a group eating a diet more typical of the American diet.

"When we fed the mice the walnuts, the growth rate of the tumors they had was dramatically suppressed," Hardman said."

And all you need to eat is a few more than usual, according to this study. Like 330 Calories per day if you eat 2000 Calories per day or 495 if you eat 3000 Calories per day - somewhere between 2 and 3 ounces per day.

These "researchers" did not address how the walnuts were prepared - salted, fried, etc.

But at a cost of maybe $5.00 for 3/4 of a pound, you can spend $1.25 to $1.66 per day or $465.65 and $607.41 per year on this "snack."

"The mice ate a diet in which 18.5 percent of the daily calories -- the equivalent of two servings for humans -- came from walnuts. Tumors in the walnut-fed group took twice as long to double in size as tumors in the control group, the article reports. The study is believed to be the first to look at the impact of walnut consumption on cancer growth.

'It's always very good to find something that will slow the growth of tumors without being toxic chemotherapy,' said Hardman, who has spent 15 years studying the role of diet in cancer."

Of course, you have to get the right kind of cancer for these nuts to work.

Plus, there was no evidence that the cancer did not spread earlier, just allegedly grew more slowly.

And you have to be a nut to believe this crap.

But, hey! It is always good to find a study that makes money for your underwriters.

"The project was funded through grants from the American Institute for Cancer Research and the California Walnut Commission, neither of which had input on the interpretation or reporting of the findings."

Right.

Snicker. Snicker.