Integrating this fruit into your daily diet can offer significant benefits and be a strategy to maintain good cardiovascular health.
This food has endless positive properties.
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According to different nutritionists and experts in medicine those known as “superfoods“are those that provide, just by consuming them, a rain of nutrients very healthy and they have certain very useful benefits for any type of person.
Although in the past its consumption was questioned due to its calorie contentrecent studies revealed that the peanut is an effective ally to reduce the LDL cholesterolknown as the “bad cholesterol“.
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Why does peanuts help reduce bad cholesterol?
He peanut is an excellent source of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acidsboth recognized for their positive effects on cardiovascular health. These healthy fatty acids help reduce levels of LDL cholesterol and increase the HDL cholesterolthe “good cholesterol.”
In addition, the fiber present in this food plays a crucial role in the cholesterol reduction. Soluble fiber helps decrease cholesterol absorption in the intestinethus contributing to the decrease in levels of LDL cholesterol.
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Scientifically proven: peanuts have properties that could benefit cardiovascular health
An investigation published in the journal Antioxidantsin which 68 people participated 18 and 33 years old during six monthsand which was promoted by the University of Barcelona and the CIBER of Obesity and Nutrition of Madrid, Spaincame to the conclusion that the peanut consumption could be beneficial for the cardiovascular health of people young and healthy.
To reach this conclusion, the researchers asked the study participants to add a daily serving of peanuts in your diet. “We observed a significant increase of urinary levels of phenolic metabolites in young people who consumed peanuts and peanut butter daily, compared to the control group, which took a cream without fiber or polyphenols,” he explained. Pink Lamuelaresponsible for the work and professor of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Sciences of Food of the University of Barcelona.
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How eating peanuts helps our brain
In the School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia A study was carried out on peanut consumption. The director of the investigation, Alison Coatesindicated that this dried fruit has wonderful effects on the brain health.
The study came to an interesting conclusion: Consuming 30 grams of peanuts per day helps reduce cholesterol levels and improves brain functions. This is roughly equivalent to 30 grains of this nut. Peanuts have compounds (such as arginine) that cause there to be a better blood flow, according to academic publications. This vasodilation favors all brain functions and allows better performance in cognitive activities.
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