If you’re like most Americans,
getting your cholesterol checked is a bit like submitting your taxes. It hurts,
and it’s usually bad news. There’s this positively exciting new study out of
Penn State that shows that one delicious nut may help you crunch your way to
lower cholesterol and a healthier heart.
And here’s the best part — this
noble nut is jam-packed with heart-protecting fatty acids that go to work
protecting your ticker in MINUTES, not days!
Here’s the scoop. Researchers at
Penn State asked 15 overweight adults with high cholesterol to add tasty
walnuts to their daily diet. They could eat whole nuts, just the meat of the
nuts, or down a small helping of walnut oil, which you can buy for a few cents
a day at any health food store.
The results were just amazing.
Researchers began testing the heart
and blood vessel health of their subjects just 30 minutes after they consumed
walnuts, and it’s a good thing — because this miracle nut goes to work FAST.
Just taking one teaspoon of walnut
oil after a meal was all it took to improve blood vessel integrity, which is
absolutely critical if you’re suffering from cardiovascular disease. Folks who
ate whole walnuts saw an extra benefit, too — the fatty acids in walnuts
actually helped their bodies remove excess cholesterol.
That means less sticky gunk clogging
up your arteries, just waiting to cause a heart attack or leave you with a long
and painful zipper scar down your chest.
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