He explained to me that there’s a big difference between eating raw nuts and eating roasted nuts. He really surprised me when he said that raw almonds are on a list of cholesterol lowering foods. He explained how heated fats are terrible for the body and that munching on a can of roasted nuts was not doing my waistline, cholesterol, or triglycerides any favors.  It turns out that most raw nuts are actually very healthy.  So I’m still munching away – but now on raw nuts – and getting healthier doing it.