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Friday, 27 August 2010 |
Crunchy nuts not only make for a tasty topping on your cakes and puddings but they help manage your cholesterol levels. If you love nuts, then you have another excuse for eating them. They help control your cholesterol and brace the fitness of your heart too.
Amidst various nuts that may help you keep a tab on your cholesterol, walnuts are one of the best choices. FDA has certified walnuts as a vital cholesterol lowering food. Besides, controlling your cholesterol levels, walnuts also help lower the chance of heart sicknesses and lessen inflammation.
Walnuts account for an effective cholesterol lowering fat just because they contain omega 3 fatty acids, which are known to bring down cholesterol levels. These nuts contain alpha linoeic acid and phytosterols that scale back the triglyceride level present in the blood stream.
If you eat walnuts on a constant basis, you can also ensure that plaque formation in your body is significantly less. Excessive formation of plaque in the arteries is understood to cause cases of coronary attack. Likewise it shoots up the HDL levels, and brings down the LDL levels, both at once.
The good results of walnuts are not just prohibited to manage of your cholesterol |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 27 August 2010 )
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