Yet another study came out in favor of pistachios (another resent study from researchers at Penn State found that eating pistachios may reduce your body's response to the stresses of everyday life) and that it may offer potential heart health benefits. This is the second one I’ve seen in the last few months. The pistachio industry must be pushing for these studies, but that doesn’t mean they’re not accurate.  The most recent was published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, and found that a 4-week pistachio diet, containing moderate amounts of heart healthy fat, improves risk factors for heart disease with no weight gain. The study, conducted by James N. Cooper M.D., of George Mason University and Michael J. Sheridan, Sc.D., of Inova Fairfax Hospital, found that in people with moderately high cholesterol levels, a daily diet consisting of 15% of calories from pistachios (about two to three ounces or one to two handfuls of kernels) over a four-week period favorably improved some blood lipid levels.  Anyway, this is an interesting study, but keep in mind pistachios have about one ounce of nuts or 47 of them have approximately 170 calories. Eat them sparingly or use them to replace other high calorie high fat foods like brownies.

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