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Healthy Habits
The best way to live a healthy life is to eat healthy and do more active physical activities. Healthy eating and exercising has a big impact on your future success, remaining in a healthy body, and preventing obesity or overweight. Eating healthy and doing more physical activities is a rule everyone should live by and it brings many benefits to your life.
Eating nuts on regular basis is one of a healthy habits.
Science is proving these little gems can help protect us from disease.
Lowering Your Cholesterol(Pecans And Almonds)
The polyunsaturated fat in nuts lowers LDL, or bad, cholesterol levels, and their monounsaturated fat raises good HDL cholesterol levels. and their monounsaturated fats raises good HDL cholesterol levels.
The more almonds people ate, the lower their levels of LDL cholesterol and higher their levels of HDL.
Eating 37 grams of almonds a day lowered LDL cholesterol by 4.4 percent: eating 73 grams a day reduced it by 9.4 percent.
Helping Your Heart(Peanuts And Walnuts)
By helping to reduce LDL cholesterol, which eventually leads to atherosclerotic plaque formation and hardening of the arteries, nuts help protect your heart.
Men who ate nuts at least twice a week had a 47 percent lower risk of sudden cardiac death and a 30 percent lower risk of dying from all types of coronary-artery disease than those who didn't eat nuts.
Women who ate at least 140 grams of nuts a week were 35 percent less likely to suffer heart attacks than women who ate than 28 grams a month.
Healthy adults who consumed nuts five or more times a week were 50 percent less likely to die of a heart attack than those who hardly ever ate nuts.
Defending Against Diabetes
(Peanuts And Walnuts)
The fat and nutrients in nuts may improve glucose and insulin stability in people with Type 2 diabetes.
Eating nuts has been liked to a reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes in women. Those who ate nuts at least five times a week cut their risk of Type 2 diabetes by nearly 30 percent. Women who regularly ate peanut better lowered their risk by 20 percent.
Countering Cancer
(Walnuts, Pecans And Brazil nuts)
Nuts could slow the progression of some cancer cells, and help destroy free radical that can cause cancer.
A form of E vitamin present in walnuts and pecans appears to slow the growth of lung and prostate cancer cells. Gamma-tocopherol attacked the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.
Walnuts also contain melatonin, a hormone that destroys free radicals. Free radicals are unstable compounds that are a by-product of cellular metabolism in our bodies; if they aren't neutralized, they can cause cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Brazil nuts contain selenium, an antioxidant that helps neutralize free radicals.
Keeping Trim
(Cashews, Macadamia nuts, Almond, Pecans And Walnuts)
Nuts have fibre and other nutrients that interfere with the absorption of fat and they are satisfying, so people feel fuller longer.
People who frequently eat nuts are thinner than those who don't.
Eating walnuts decreases hunger an cause people to eat less at meals.
Something to keep in mind: Macadamia nuts and Brazil nuts have the highest fat and calorie content among nuts.
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