My Nutty Valentine−Your Heart on Nuts

Eating nuts along with a healthy diet may reduce the risks of heart disease by lowering lipid levels or the bad fats in the blood like triglycerides and cholesterol.  High levels of these two lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides) significantly increases your risks of heart disease, so eating nuts to help keep them in check can be very helpful.

An Evaluation of past studies showed that eating 2.4 oz of nuts per day can lower your total cholesterol by 5% and bad LDL cholesterol by 7%, triglyceride levels decrease by 10%.  A whole food, eating nuts including walnuts, almonds, pistachios, and hazelnuts, you can expect positive affects on blood lipid levels  and lower heart disease risks.

Posted by Vitaminlady Blog at 2/10/2012 10:38 AM
Categories: Heart Health
Tags: heart health heart disease Cholesterol
 

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