Nuts are rich sources of multiple nutrients and phytochemicals associated with health benefits, including reduced cardiovascular disease risk. This has prompted recommendations to increase their consumption. However, they are also high in fat and are energy dense. The associations between these properties, positive energy balance and body weight raise questions about such recommendations. Numer...

Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) was used to increase the shelf life of fresh in hull pistachio nuts (Pistacia vera L.), meeting the market demand for fresh high quality products. Fresh in hull pistachio nuts were stored at 5°C and three different gaseous conditions including 10% O2, 20% CO2 and 70% N2 (MAP1), 100% CO2 (MAP2) and ambient atmosphere for 42 days. The samples of 300 g of pistac...

Background Plant food allergy is a relatively frequent medical problem in childhood. Peanut and tree nuts are the most common causes. Some are allergic to tree nuts due to pollen cross reactivity whereas others have a primary tree nut allergy. Cross sensitivity is also seen between tree nuts and is serologically well described. But the clinical picture of cross sensitivity amongst tree nut alle...

There is not much information on the prevalence of tree nut allergy in populations, and reports vary in the methods of data collection as well as the ages of the study populations. The few reports available indicate that in the United States, an allergy to tree nuts affects about 0.5% of the population.1 In Canada, the number is 1.22%;2 in the United Kingdom, the number varies from 1.4%3 to 2.2...

BACKGROUND Gallstone disease is a major source of morbidity in the developed countries. Nuts are rich in several compounds that may protect against gallstone disease. OBJECTIVE The association between nut intake and cholecystectomy was examined in a large cohort of women. DESIGN We prospectively studied nut (peanuts, other nuts, and peanut butter) consumption in relation to the risk of chol...

OBJECTIVES Post-obstructive pulmonary edema is thought to occur from hemodynamic changes secondary to forced inspiration against the closed airway due to acute or chronic airway obstruction. We report a case of a 13 month-old boy who developed pulmonary edema from aspirated foreign body, nuts. METHODS He underwent emergency bronchoscopy to confirm the clinical diagnosis of aspirated nuts in t...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. The basis for developing CHD is the onset and progression of atherosclerosis caused by abnormal lipoprotein metabolism and uncontrolled cycles of inflammation and oxidative stress. Risk factors for the manifestation of atherosclerosis and consequent development of CHD remain to be hypertension, poor dietary habits, hyperchole...

We describe a procedure which may be helpful to any disorganized carpenter who has a mixed pile of bolts and nuts and wants to nd the corresponding pairs of bolts and nuts. The procedure uses our (and the carpenter's) ability to construct e ciently highly expanding graphs. The problem considered is given a collection of n bolts of distinct widths and n nuts such that there is a 1-1 corresponden...