Study: A Handful of Nuts a Day Could Lower Your Heart Disease Risk Dramatically
But why might nuts be helpful for good heart health, and how can you add them to your diet? Here’s what you need to know.Heart disease is a complicated illness and it’s difficult to pin your risk on developing it just on nuts, says lead study author Erik Arnesen, a researcher at the University of Oslo. Still, he says, nuts may be able to help support good heart health.
Nuts have several nutrients that can be helpful for heart health including unsaturated fatty acids that are linked to lower levels of cholesterol in the blood, Arnesen says. “Adding nuts to the diet has beento lower cholesterol, and this may explain at least partly why people who regularly eat nuts have a lower risk,” he says.
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