A new worldwide study has shown that eating less food with saturated fat (fried food, red meat and snacks such as crisps) and replacing them with nuts can reduce the risk of you dying of cardio-vascular problems.
The study looked at the health and diet of people in the worldwide Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology – a group of over 124,000 people aged 35-70 from 16 countries on all five continents.
The study recorded the consumption of nuts as one of the many food groups measured. The study also looked at people within the group who later died of heart problems and stroke, as well as analysing cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure levels.
The study outcome showed a clear benefit of eating more nuts instead of saturated fat foods. The outcome showed that death rates from both cardio-vascular diseases and from other causes were both lower.
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de Souza, R., Dehghan, M., Mente, A., Bangdiwala, S., Ahmed, S., Alhabib, K., Altuntas, Y., Basiak-Rasała, A., Dagenais, G., Diaz, R., Amma, L., Kelishadi, R., Khatib, R., Lear, S., Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Mohan, V., Poirier, P., Rangarajan, S., Rosengren, A., Ismail, R., Swaminathan, S., Wentzel-Viljoen, E., Yeates, K., Yusuf, R., Teo, K., Anand, S. and Yusuf, S., 2020. Association of nut intake with risk factors, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 16 countries from 5 continents: analysis from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,.