According to a recent
study, walnuts support a healthy heart. People with diets high in walnuts have reduced cardiovascular risk factors and lower rates of cardiovascular disease. Another study by the same researchers showed that walnut-enriched diets led to lower cholesterol than other diets. Nuts have long been a staple of the Mediterranean diet, which is considered a ‘heart-healthy’ diet. There is
evidence that enriching a ‘heart-healthy’ diet with nuts further increased the blood pressure benefits of that diet.
Furthermore, the
British Journal of Nutrition found that those who ate nuts more than 4 times a week reduced their risk of coronary heart disease by up to 37%.
