Eating Peanuts Boosts Heart Health
By including nuts and peanuts in your daily diet, you are using a reliable and inexpensive way of improving your heart health. According to reports from a recent study, it was observed that an increase in peanut consumption helped to boost cardio vascular health.
Lead author of the study, Xiao-Ou Shu from Vanderbilt University said, "Nuts are rich in nutrients, such as unsaturated fatty acids, fiber, vitamins, phenolic antioxidants, arginine and other phytochemicals."
He added, "All of them are known to be beneficial to cardiovascular health, probably through their anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory and endothelial function maintenance properties."
Through the study, it was discovered that the cardiovascular health of people showed signs of improvement across all ethnic groups. This includes whites, Asians and blacks as well. The other benefit to using peanuts is that it is much less expensive when compared to other nut alternatives and is easily available to people of all socio economic backgrounds.
The research was based on three large on-going cohort studies. Participants included over 70,000 people from the Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS) in the US, and over 130,000 Chinese from the Shanghai Women's Health Study (SWHS) and the Shanghai Men's Health Study (SMHS).
In total, over 14,000 deaths were identified, with a median follow-up of 5.4 years in the SCCS, 6.5 years in the SMHS, and 12.2 years in the SWHS.
The study was originally published in JAMA Internal Medicine and revealed that regular peanut consumption showed a decrease in cardiovascular mortality is all races and both genders as well.
