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This is something I already knew, but it never harms to get another insight into it after a while: nuts are good for the health. Well, alright, no need to eat five pounds of them per day, else we may just end up with unwanted pounds elsewhere, like with any kind of food excess. Regarding health, though, they’re indeed a perfect source for “good” fats, notably the famous omega-3. Here’s a bit of a nice article about the benefits of adding more nuts to our diets:

People who eat nuts are healthier. A study published in the July 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association (JADA) shows that eating a handful of walnuts every day can help patients with type 2 diabetes achieve recommended intakes for polyunsaturated fatty acids (such as omega-3s), critical to protecting the heart. Other large-scale studies, including the Physician’s Health Study, the Iowa Women’s Heath Study and the Harvard Nurses Health Study, also found that eating nuts lowered heart disease risk. Other studies have shown that nuts help lower bad LDL cholesterol.

And a few more things:

• Nuts provide varying amounts protein, vitamins and minerals, carbohydrate and fiber.
• Nuts are rich in immunity-promoting phytochemicals, important in preventing heart disease, stroke and other chronic diseases.
• Nuts are low in saturated fat and contain no trans fat: they contain mainly heart-healthy monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.

Read more about nuts in this eDiets article.

Yzabel wrote this on August 11th, 2005 and filed it under Healthy Living, Healthy Eating, Health Foods, Raw Foods |