Spanish researchers found that adding nuts to the daily diet worked better than boosting olive oil. A handful of nuts together with a Mediterranean diet rich in fruit, vegetables and fish may help to cut the risk of heart disease known as metabolic syndrom in more people than low fat diet did.
Nuts help people to feel full while also increasing the body’s ability to burn fat, said the leading author Dr. Jordi Salas-Salvado of the University Rovira i Virgil in Reus, Spain. Nuts are rich in anti inflammatory substances und antioxidants and are high in unsaturated fat, known to lower blood triglycerides and increase good cholesterol. Metabolic syndrom was defined as having three or more of the following conditions: abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, low levels of good cholesterol (HDL), high blood sugar and high blood pressure. Participants didn’t trypically lose weight but more of them succeeded in reducing belly fat and reducing their cholesterol levels and high blood pressure.