Absolutely!

And even better, my blood pressure has dropped back down to ideal normal. When I stray from the low-fat, whole foods program, it tends to creep up too.

VegHead - I love nuts too, and I do eat them, as well as seeds. Jeff Novick does too. Hey, I've seen Jeff eat peanut butter (once) with my daughters when we were filming! He must've been hungry! :)

Nuts are a good food, we can agree on that for sure. Novick recommends about an ounce a day, for people who wish to eat them, as he says in his talk.

Where I'm going to disagree with some others: I don't subscribe to the "superfood" mentality on nuts or just about any other food.

And nuts and avocados and other high-fat plant foods can definitely be a problem for vegans who are trying to bring their weight down.

Did AJ put her health at risk in some way when she gave up nuts and quickly lost 15 or 20 pounds as a direct result?

Definitely not, is my take.

But the nut people seem to disagree almost violently, and went apoplectic claiming she somehow made a huge mistake and was going to fall over and die any minute when she pushed away the nut jar.

That's all this has been, is push back against people pushing nuts based on very shaky, mostly nut-industry funded science.

Nuts aren't bad foods, they're good. But they aren't required for nutritional excellence and great health. The Okinawans are some of the longest living people on the planet, and nuts had nothing to do with it. Sweet potatoes did, but even though sweet potatoes are a great food in a lot of ways, once again you can have a very healthy diet even if you don't eat very many of them, just like nuts. Your overall dietary pattern is what matters, not any individual food or particular tea or special ingredient. That kind of stuff is just an interesting distraction.

Now here's a piece of advice that CAN really save your health, from Dr. McDougall: http://bit.ly/W6y0r9

Cheers.