Healthy Nuts – healthy living in Organico, West Cork, Bantry
Daily nuts may help boost health!
We often reccommend that our customers eat good quality (preferably organic) nuts on a daily basis to help stabilise blood sugar – nuts are a protien rich food source which is digested much more slowly than, say, toast. Hence they make good night time snacks for people who wake in the night, and good day time snacks for everybody.
Recently I recieved an email which confirmed all of this – thanks to Catherine from A.Vogel for the information!
”Adding nuts to a healthy diet may help release people from a dangerous combination of health problems. Up to 25% of people in the UK and Ireland are thought to have “metabolic syndrome”, which includes obesity and high blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar.
‘A Mediterranean diet of vegetables, fruit and fish plus daily nuts boosted health in more than one in eight at-risk volunteers, a Spanish study found. 13.7% of those eating their daily bag of nuts as well as the Mediterranean diet had improved. Even though none of the participants’ weight had dropped significantly over the year, waist circumferences had diminished in the nut-eating group, and cholesterol and blood pressure levels had dropped. The research was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine journal”.
Nuts also contain great sources of minerals – for example almonds for calcium and Brazils for selenium.For anyone who doeswn’t know the mediterranean Diet is a diet rich in fruit, veg, grains, olive oil, fish, and small amounts of meat and dairy. And red wine of course!!!!