Walnuts and Prostate cancer In summary, the current study provides additional evidence that the PCa health benefits, which accompany walnut consumption, are associated with walnut-driven changes in IGF-1 and cholesterol-related systems along with energy-related metabolic systems, all of which have been shown to be important in human PCa. The use of walnuts either whole or as oil as the sole fat source at high levels in the diets presents potential issues regarding walnuts in plausible human diets. However, the recently reported, walnut-associated cancer-related benefits in human studies suggest that walnuts beneficial effects on human cancer do not require unrealistically high consumption levels.3,4 In addition, these study results also suggest that walnuts beneficial effects with respect to cancer are not lost when walnuts are consumed as part of a typical American diet. More generally, our findings show that the use of total fat content of walnuts specifically or of either a food or a diet when assessing health effects is unwarranted, as it proved a very poor predictor of walnuts health-related effects. Finally, the current study results further highlight the need to continue to improve our current understanding of walnuts health effects to effectively use them in diets to reduce PCa morbidity and mortality. online.liebertpub/doi/full/10.1089/jmf.2014.0061
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