Only 56 grams of nuts will make you healthy

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The presence of walnuts in the diet improves the vessels full of people.

Doctors from the Research Center at Yale University have found evidence of the protective properties of walnuts. These nuts prevent the development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in people at high risk.

The study included 46 volunteers aged 30 to 75 years. All participants had a body mass index greater than 25 and a waist circumference of more than 100 cm for men and 88 inches for women. All of them have one or more (other than smoking) additional risk factor of metabolic syndrome - a precursor of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The volunteers were randomly divided into two groups, in which they were observed for 8 weeks. In the first group observed in the daily diet was added 56 grams of walnuts, and a second group lifestyle and nutrition patients have not changed. The study's author, director of prevention David Katz says: "We know that dietary change hard given to patients, but to add a single product for the majority there is no difficulty. As the basis of our study, we took the theory that, when added to the diet of walnuts can achieve double the result by the influence of the useful properties of nutrients and exclusion of hazardous products. "

The study showed that a daily intake of 56 grams of walnuts improves vascular endothelial function in overweight patients with type visceral obesity . Thus consumption of no more than 56 grams of walnuts does not lead to weight gain. "In the first mentioned change of the elastic properties of certain of the brachial artery. Were also obtained excellent results in lipid metabolism and hemostasis, reduced glucose and fasting insulin, the achievement of the target values ​​of blood pressure. The indicators, reflecting the state of the vascular wall in the group of volunteers, daily consuming walnuts. Positive trends were basic anthropometric values.

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