For shedding some pounds, it does not matter whether what kind of diet you follow, but if you want to improve your cholesterol levels, you must follow a high fat and walnut-rich diet. The data conducted from six-month study effectively proves that a diet which is high in fats, low in carbohydrates, rich in walnuts and the polyunsaturated fatty acids had a good impact on body’s lipid levels. It lowered the levels of low-density lipoproteins which are bad cholesterols and increased the levels of high-density lipoproteins (HDL), good cholesterols. Hence, it will only be healthier to add Walnuts in your regular diet.

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A new study has revealed that eating a handful of walnuts everyday can lead to better diet and improvements in health risk factors among people at high risk of diabetes. The study revealed that the walnut diet was associated with improvements in blood vessel cell wall function and ‘bad’ cholesterol after six months, although it didn’t have any impact on blood pressure or blood glucose levels. In the study, researchers assigned 112 people to either following a diet with dietary counselling designed to curb calorie intake, or one without. Within these two groupings, participants were randomly assigned to the daily inclusion of 56 g of walnuts in their diet or the complete avoidance of walnuts for a period of six months.

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