Showing posts with label hazelnuts heart health study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hazelnuts heart health study. Show all posts

Monday, March 7, 2011

Hazelnuts are good for the heart: the good fats lower the bad cholesterol

Hazelnuts are usually appear on our tables at Christmas time, along with other dried fruit in the basket, but obviously we would do well not to lose sight of the whole year because they have health benefits that even we imagined. So, after discovering that the almonds fight diabetes and heart disease, now the nuts come to the right in the list of nuts that saves our lives.

A recent study done in New Zealand and published by the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, in fact, this small fruit variability as a source of health. Hazelnuts are rich in vitamin E and, despite the high caloric content, along with other nuts contain essential fatty acids the body, not to mention antioxidants that help skin stay young and supple.