Best Nuts to Lose Weight

Nuts are practically everywhere because its a great ingredient to various food dishes. You can see nuts in ice creams, chocolates, cakes and many other cuisines. It’s an enjoyable food and very satisfying. Almond, my favorite nut is fortified with vitamins and minerals plus, its been studied to help lower your risks of heart disease.

Nut’s heart’s benefits are mainly due to its mono and polyunsaturated fats, compounds that can effectively reduce your cholesterol levels. Some super nuts do have enough amounts of omega-3 fatty acids which is also an essential nutrient for the body.

You probably have seen the word “nuts” from dozens of my posts here, indicating that this amazing food is not just nutritious, but are somewhat surprisingly helpful for weight loss. A research done by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests, that nuts if incorporated into your diet, may help in controlling your weight.

Another study by Purdue University states that people who regularly eat nuts tends to have a lower body mass index than those people who don’t. These studies all favors that eating nuts cannot harm your weight loss efforts nor it can contribute to weight gain.

Nuts have low glycemic index, which means that it can help you to eat less and feel full longer. The human body can efficiently ignore the calories from nuts, keeping your total calorie count low. Plus, nuts helps to eliminate excess fat into your stools, limiting your body’s fat intake.

In the studies mentioned above, nuts also helps increase the total number of calories you burn each day, even while you are asleep. This is mainly due to an increase on your resting energy expenditure, making you burn more calories at a higher rate while at rest.

So maintaining a moderate amounts of nuts in your diet is beneficial to your health and fitness. It can boost your metabolism and gives you more appetite control. But the question is, what kind of nuts to eat?

Well, most commercially sold nuts in the market are packed with salt and cooked with unhealthy oils, both bad for you health. Make sure to choose raw and unsalted nuts. Sugar coated nuts are also not ideal especially if you want to lose weight because it will spike your calorie levels.

Aside from choosing raw, unsalted and sugar-free nuts, you also need to choose which kind of nuts offers the most health benefits. Consider the following list.

Almonds is almost a complete nut, offering dozens of vitamins and minerals such as vitamin B2, copper, magnesium, vitamin E, phosphorus and protein. It also contains huge amounts of mono-unsaturated fat.

Cashew nuts are high in antioxidants, mono-unsaturated fats, phosphorus and has the lowest fat content among all other nuts. If you want to get slim with your snacks, go with cashew nuts.

Hazelnuts contains good fats, protein, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals such as proanthocyanidins, quercetin and kaempherol. If you want to lower your cholesterol, improved blood circulation, healthy brain cells and many other health benefits, eat hazelnuts.

Walnuts contains high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, manganese and copper. This nuts are also good for blood vessels as it provides essential amino acids.

Chestnuts have tons of nutrients and minerals to offer. This includes vitamin C, folate, vitamin B, magnesium, copper, thiamine, riboflavin, calories, carbohydrates and protein. It’s calories came from carbs not from fat, so it is unlikely for you to gain weight eating chestnuts. Plus, this type of nuts have fiber, an important component for a healthy body.

Peanut is the most widely marketed nut in the world, mainly because of its huge worldwide production. Peanuts are high in flavonoids, mono-unsaturated fats, antioxidants, folic acid and vitamin B3. Since it contains antioxidant, peanuts are said to help slow aging.

Other nuts that can help you lose weight are pistachio nuts, macadamia nuts, brazil nuts, pecan nuts, coconuts and pine nuts.

Nuts are nutritious and healthy snacks. You can enjoy nuts more than any other junk foods without worrying about weight gain. Remember that you should take nuts moderately as over consumption can also pose some harmful effects. Don’t do any nut diet okay!

It’s time for you to share your thoughts with regards to this topic. If you had any good or bad experiences about nuts, don’t hesitate to give your opinion by commenting below.