Showing posts with label Walnut Help Improve Cholesterol Levels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walnut Help Improve Cholesterol Levels. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Walnut Help Improve Cholesterol Levels

No matter what type of diet you are doing is a diet low in fat and high in carbohydrates or a diet high in fat and low in carbohydrates, both ways are considered effective for weight reduction.
However, if there have other health mission, which is to improve cholesterol levels, a new study conducted by researchers from the University of California found that eating a diet that is balanced with the walnut is the most effective way to regulate cholesterol levels.

To see more about how diet can affect the levels of lipid, or fat levels in the blood which together with proteins to form lipoproteins, known also as cholesterol, the researchers recruited 245 women with overweight to obesity in a weight loss program for 1 year ,
The participants were randomly divided into three groups of different diets; one group a diet low in fat and high in carbohydrates; the second group a diet high in fat and low kerbohidrat; and a third group followed a diet high in fat and low in carbohydrates are rich in walnuts as a source of polyunsaturated fatty acids.

Then, blood samples were taken from the participants to measure their cholesterol levels at baseline and six months later.