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Confused looking for healthy snacks? Nuts can be your choice. Eating nuts each day, according to the findings of researchers, can improve blood cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.

Researcher Joan Sabate, MD, DrPH, and his friends from Loma Linda University in California to collect data from 25 studies on peanut consumption in seven countries. These studies studied 583 men and women with cholesterol levels vary. None of the participants using cholesterol-lowering drugs.

Nuts are being studied include almonds, hazelnuts (a type of fruit walnut), walnut, green walnuts, walnut (walnut), macadamia nut, and peanut. Patients in these trials on average consume 67 grams per day of beans.

Consumption of peanuts in this amount is shown to decrease total cholesterol levels as much as 5.1%, lower LDL cholesterol as much as 7.4%, comparing cholesterol and lowering good cholesterol, LDL and HDL as much as 8.3%.

In addition, triglyceride levels also decreased by 10.2%. However, triglyceride reduction is to occur only in participants with high triglyceride levels in the beginning of the study. In addition, the effects of bean consumption on male and female same.

Improvement of cholesterol and heart health
All types of nuts, according to researchers, has the same effect on serum cholesterol. However, the effect of nut consumption is strongly influenced by LDL cholesterol, body mass index and type of diet. Lipid lowering effects of nuts greatest among participants with high LDL levels basic and low body mass index. Moreover, the effects of fat reduction is also more pronounced pea participants who consumed a Western-style diet.

The findings, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday (10 / 5), supporting the use of nuts in helping to improve cholesterol levels.

“Increasing the consumption of nuts as part of a healthy diet is expected to affect blood lipid levels (at least in the short term) and potentially reduce the risk of coronary heart disease,” said the researcher, as quoted webmd.com site.

However, intake in moderation is the key. Although eating nuts regularly have significant benefits, peanut consumption should be limited around 70 grams a day. This is because nuts calorie dense.(MI)