NUTS PROTECTS AGAINST EARLY DEATH

-
Eating half a handful of nuts walnuts, peanuts, cashew nuts, almond nuts etc every day could substantially lower the risk of early death, a Dutch study suggests.
Previous studies had already indicated a link with cardiovascular health, but this is the first to look at specific nuts and diseases.
Maastricht University researchers found a 23% lower chance of death during the 10-year study in people eating at least 10g (0.3oz) of nuts or peanuts a day.
There was no benefit for peanut butter, which is high in salt and trans fats.




What's in a nut?

  • monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids
  • various vitamins
  • fibre
  • antioxidants
  • other bioactive compounds


More than 120,000 Dutch 55-to-69-year-old men and women provided dietary and lifestyle information in 1986, and then their mortality rate was looked at 10 years later.
The premature mortality risk due to cancer, diabetes, respiratory and neurodegenerative diseases was lower among the nut consumers.
There was an average 23% lower risk of 10-year mortality across all diseases, with a decrease of:
  • 45% for neurodegenerative disease
  • 39% for respiratory disease
  • 30% for diabetes
Prof Piet van den Brandt, who led the study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, said: "It was remarkable that substantially lower mortality was already observed at consumption levels of 15g of nuts or peanuts on average per day."
The researchers had taken into account the mitigating factor that nut consumers ate more fruit and vegetables and that women who ate nuts were often leaner, and adjusted the results accordingly, Prof Van den Brandt told the BBC.

Comments

Post a Comment

I will like to hear your comments. Please leave a comment below

Popular posts from this blog

Oxidative Stress Polyphenols and Flavonoids

-
Image
  Oxidative stress is  an imbalance of free radicals and antioxidants in your body that leads to cell damage . It plays a role in many conditions like cancer, Alzheimer's disease and heart disease. Toxins like pollution and cigarette smoke can cause oxidative stress, while foods rich in antioxidants can help reduce it.  Oxidative stress is a phenomenon caused by an imbalance between production and accumulation of oxygen reactive species (ROS) in cells and tissues and the ability of a biological system to detoxify these reactive products. ROS can play, and in fact they do it, several physiological roles (i.e., cell signaling), and they are normally generated as by-products of oxygen metabolism; despite this, environmental stressors (i.e., UV, ionizing radiations, pollutants, and heavy metals) and xenobiotics (i.e., antiblastic drugs) contribute to greatly increase ROS production, therefore causing the imbalance that leads to cell and tissue damage (oxidative stre ss )....
Read more

Thyme: Benefits.

-
Image
 Thyme is a Mediterranean herb with dietary, medicinal, and ornamental uses. The flowers, leaves, and oil of thyme plants can treat various symptoms and complaints. The most common variety is Thymus vulgaris. A wide range of thyme-related products, such as for cooking or for skin care, are available. This article looks at thyme’s medicinal uses and nutrition and the history of its rise to popularity. thyme in gardens and gathered it in the countryside. Scientific research does not support this use for respiratory illnesses but has shown that thyme has a range of medicinal properties that modern people can benefit from Benefits of Thyme. researched the anticancer effects of thyme. A 2023 study found that concentrations of thyme oil decrease the viability of breast cancer cells by 50%. Another 2023 study found that thyme oil is rich in components such as thymol and p-cymene, which have detrimental effects on certain cancer cell lines, stopping cancer cells from migrating to other par...
Read more

FLU VACINEE MAY PREVENT HEART DIESEASE

-
Image
Getting a flu shot this season may not only greatly lower your risk of influenza this year, it may also lower your risk of heart disease, a new review from Canada suggests. Results show that people who received the flu vaccine were 50 percent less likely to experience a heart attack or stroke, and 40 percent less likely to die from one, compared with people in the unvaccinated control group. The flu vaccine could be an important way to maintain heart health and  ward off strokes and heart attacks , the researchers said. They presented their findings at a cardiovascular disease research meeting Monday in Toronto. In the study, Dr. Jacob Udell, a cardiologist at Women's College Hospital and the University of Toronto, and colleagues looked at four previous studies involving a total of more than 3,000 people whose average age was 60 — some with previous heart disease, and some without such conditions. Participants in all the...
Read more