I don’t know about you but I love nuts! It’s hard for me to eat just a few. Thank God for their medicinal health benefits! If you have a hard time resisting nuts please take the time to learn more about these tasty foods. (Follow your doctors advise to omit nuts from your diet if you or your loved ones have been found to have nut allergies.)
Although they are considered a high-calorie food, research suggests that nuts may actually help you lose weight.
One large study called the PREDIMED study assessed the effects of the Mediterranean diet. Analysis of data from a subgroup of the study found that those assigned to eat nuts lost an average of 2 inches (5 cm) from their waists, which is significantly more than those assigned to eat olive oil.
Almonds have consistently been shown to promote weight loss rather than weight gain in controlled studies. One study found that pistachios may also be helpful for weight loss.
In one study of overweight women, those who consumed almonds lost nearly three times as much weight and experienced a significantly greater decrease in waist size compared to the control group.
What's more, even though the calorie counts listed for nuts are quite high, studies have shown that your body doesn't absorb all of them. This is because a portion of fat stays trapped within the nut's fibrous wall during digestion.
At the end of the day, nuts are a highly nutritious and super tasty food that can fit into almost everyone's diet.
