Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Nuts: Good or bad???

Listening to a nutritionist scare some of my precious clients about nuts made me dig more into the above subject. As everyone is entitled to their opinions, my nutritionist
pointed out the effects that oil based foods (including nuts) will have on certain areas of the body, for 71 young girls and myself this is not what might be refered to as good news.

I hold the opinion that nuts are good (a handful, or realistically for me 2 handfuls). I find nuts to quite delightful when they decorate my bowl of cereal or oatmeal in the morning, matter of fact i would rather have them than any other ingredients with my cereals. I particularly don't eat peanut butter more than once or twice a month, and I dislike the idea that peanut butter goes well with/in oatmeal. Enough about me, let's go nuts!
For the USDA (U.S Department of Agriculture) to suggest that nuts can be sub for protein source foods (including poultry and meat), I believe there has been a conclusive research that supports the nutritious value of nuts, go to http://mypyramid.gov/ for more details. Nuts do contain the following vitamins E, magnesium, zinc, iron, potassium, and even fiber and it is believed to lower cholesterol; how it does this I don't want to bore anyone with details, just like I don't know want to clutter my brain with how omega fatty acids does it's magic. However, Nursing school taught me that when a patient has a condition that causes major adverse reaction from eating seeded foods or nuts they are not safe to have it, especially if you are allergic to it please forget the above mentioned benefits, the nutrients can be acquired by other means (foods or multiviatmins)...
Matter of fact on this website http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NAH/is_6_32/ai_89812954 it pointed out that as much as 200 thousand plus subjects have been tested in several tests and the conclusion is that nuts been a good source of protein and fats is a more beneficial than detrimental to health.

It is ok to eat nuts but don't go nuts about it. Remember too much of anything is bad.

I like to know what you think.

Thank you.

Vic

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