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In this section I treat peanuts as a nut, even though it is a legume.

It's True: Brazil Nut Selenium & Radiation Poisoning Dangers. Are Brazil nuts good for you?

It's True: Brazil Nut Selenium & Radiation Poisoning Dangers

Do they contain toxic radiation? Can they cause a selenium overdose with side effects? You may be surprised to hear the answer to all three of these questions is yes, technically speaking. Of course, you’re probably wondering how can something be good for you when it possesses those two characteristics?! Well those headlines are half the story, you need to hear the rest… Why You Need to Activate Nuts and Seeds and How To Do It. Pumpkin Seed Butter Benefits Beat Almond, Cashew & Peanut. The days of Jif and Skippy may have been your parents’ generation, while yours is almond butter.

Pumpkin Seed Butter Benefits Beat Almond, Cashew & Peanut

What nut butter will your kids – or grandkids – supplant yours with? It might not be nut butter at all. Walnuts Feed Beneficial Gut Bacteria and Other Health Benefits. Benefits of Eating Nuts. Benefits of Nuts for Stroke Prevention. In the PREDIMED study, from the Spanish “PREvencio ́n con DIeta MEDiterranea,” a whopping 7,447 patients were randomized into three groups.

Benefits of Nuts for Stroke Prevention

These were folks at high risk for a heart attack. About half were obese and diabetic and most had high blood pressure and high cholesterol, but they had not yet had their first heart attack or stroke. A third were told to eat a Mediterranean diet and given a free quart of extra virgin olive oil every week. The second group were told to eat a Mediterranean diet and given a free half pound of nuts every week, and the last third were told to follow the American Heart Association guidelines and reduce their fat intake. Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut. We’re at the tail end of a low-fat diet craze that warned people to avoid nuts as a high-fat snack.

Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut

But in reality, low-fat diets are one of the worst things you could do for your health! Your body needs healthy fat sources. It’s the type of fat that really matters. Refined and processed fats are bad for us. But plant fats, or physterols, found in nuts are one of many healthy and natural fats. 14 Pistachio Health Benefits Too Good To Ignore. You’ve seen the “Get Crackin” commercials from Paramount Farms, more commonly known as The Wonderful Company.

14 Pistachio Health Benefits Too Good To Ignore

They are the largest producer of pistachios in the United States. Their TV spots often feature celebs and athletes with rockin’ bods, but are you really going to look like that, given how much fat content they have? Are pistachios bad for you? Quite the opposite, actually. Studies suggest they are actually good for weight loss, by promoting satiability and the recent finding that their fat content isn’t being entirely absorbed in the digestive tract. Top 8 Benefits of Pecan Nutrition + Pecan Recipes. The savory taste of the pecan is worth a lot more than a delicious pie from grandma — this nut may help you stay healthy for a long time thanks to the wonders of pecan nutrition.

Top 8 Benefits of Pecan Nutrition + Pecan Recipes

Pecan trees grow fiercely large and provide many of these scrumptious treats that have been shown to aid in weight loss, protect the body from diseases like atherosclerosis (hardening and narrowing of the arteries) and diabetes, and even improve brain health. Although many people claim that a low-fat diet is the best way to live a healthy lifestyle, the healthy fats of pecan nutrition are powerful in the production of antioxidants, reduction of inflammation and simply provide a great-tasting addition to almost any dish. 1. Helps Maintain High Energy and Lose Weight Contrary to what many popular figures may tell you, eating a diet low in dietary fat is actually not very beneficial to you at all. Hazelnuts: 7 Benefits of These Heart-Healthy, Brain-Boosting Nuts. It’s not breaking news that tree nuts are some of the most nutrient-rich snacks you can choose to add to your diet, and in a world filled with overly fatty, preservative-filled, downright harmful snack options, nuts like hazelnuts are filling, delicious and nutritious.

Hazelnuts: 7 Benefits of These Heart-Healthy, Brain-Boosting Nuts

Sometimes called filbert nuts, hazelnuts are a particularly good option because these marble-sized superfoods pack a potent nutritional punch. There is some reluctance to enjoy nuts due to fear over their fat and calories. But when enjoyed in proper serving sizes, nuts can provide filling protein, fiber, unsaturated fats, and many other important vitamins and minerals. Hazelnuts contain compounds that can battle heart disease and diabetes, boost brain function, and even help you lose weight. 9 Amazing Benefits of Almonds Nutrition. Almonds have been prized since ancient times as one of humankind’s most beloved nuts.

9 Amazing Benefits of Almonds Nutrition

They were popular in the diets of ancient Egyptians and Indian populations. Ancient Indian Ayurvedic practitioners even believed that almonds were capable of increasing brain capacity, intellectual ability and longevity. Click here for your printable guide on the health benefits of almonds! Almost there! Please complete this form and click the button below to gain instant access. Enter your email to download this free guide right now. We hate SPAM and promise to keep your email address safe. Today, almonds nutrition benefits are praised around the world, and they are used in numerous different ways: eaten raw as a healthy snack; as the base ingredient in almond butter, almond milk or almond flour; and even in many body lotions and fragrances.

Cholesterol reduction is the most celebrated health benefit of almonds, but there are many other vital health benefits of almonds nutrition. Why I Gave Up Peanut Butter. Peanuts have been adulterated from the original healthy food they once were into something quite dangerous.

Why I Gave Up Peanut Butter

Here is why I gave up peanut butter. Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Naproxen, Statins, and Peanuts. Marathon Drugs Increases Price 70-Fold – 2/10/17 More predation by pharma.

Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Naproxen, Statins, and Peanuts

Marathon has gotten a decades old muscular dystrophy drug, deflazacort, approved and is charging $89,000 a year for it. It’s price in Europe is under $1500/year. Where are the free market forces? Why aren’t our elected officials protecting us from this egregious practice? Lowest Stroke Rates in Older Baby Boomers; Younger People Rising– 9/12/16 reports the American Heart Association, here. Sugar Lobby Promotes Sugar– 11/13/16 Surreal.

Zika Breakthrough– 8/30/16 Reported here and elsewhere, two existing (already approved) drugs appear to be effective against Zika. AHA Limits Added Sugar– 8/17/16 A sensible recommendation from the American Heart Association limits sugar for children aged 2-18 to fewer than 6 teaspoons a day. Reducing Peanut Allergy + Peanut Butter Alternatives. In the U.S., approximately 1 to 2 percent (or more) of the population has a peanut allergy — about 3 million people — a percentage that continues to rise. For instance, in the past two decades, the prevalence of peanut allergies has more than quadrupled, up from 0.4 percent of the U.S. population in 1997 to 1.4 percent in 2008 to more than 2 percent in 2010. (1) Peanut allergies are more prevalent among children under 3 years old, and the risk of developing a peanut allergy increases to 7 percent for a sibling of a child with a peanut allergy. (2) It’s why peanuts are among the “big eight” food allergies, along with eggs, fish, milk, tree nuts, shellfish, soy and wheat.

What’s really disturbing is that there’s no clear, definitive reason why this common food allergy is on the rise, but new research in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that avoiding peanuts at an early age may be partly to blame. What Is a Peanut? Peanut Allergy Symptoms. Why You Need to Activate Nuts and Seeds and How To Do It.

Don’t eat another nut before reading this! Is Your “Healthy” Diet Killing You? It's True: Brazil Nut Selenium & Radiation Poisoning Dangers.