Nuts – very important component in a diet of each person. Was considered earlier that nuts contain a lot of fat and they are very high-calorie. Persons interested to lose weight resolutely excluded them from the diet. However the last researches showed that nuts very useful. The organism needs fats. They are necessary for it at least because the brain for 70% consists of fat. Not all fats are useful. Those products which are rich in nonsaturated Omega-3 fatty acids are useful. The best source of these fats are fish and nuts.
Nuts are very useful to a brain, they remove cholesterol and support heart in a good tone. Each grade of nuts differs in the composition of useful substances. In large numbers nuts are quite harmful. The daily dose – is no more than handful in day.
The most useful nuts:
- Peanut
Place of residence: South of Europe and tropics.
Structure: B1, B2, C vitamins, iron, phosphorus, calcium, potassium, magnesium, sodium.
Advantage: prevents cardiovascular diseases, malignant tumors and early aging.
Contraindications: varicosity.
- Brazil nut
Place of residence: Valley of Amazon.
Structure: B6, E vitamins, calcium, potassium, selenium, zinc, iron.
Advantage: prevents cardiovascular diseases, cancer, removes cholesterol, normalizes sugar level in blood.
Contraindications: contains radium, strong allergen. To use no more than 2 features a day.
- Walnut
Place of residence: India, China, Greece, Moldova, North America, Transcaucasia.
Structure: vitamins A, In, E, PP, K, calcium, iodine, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, cobalt.
Advantage: it is useful to vessels, protects from radiation, helps at an anemia and avitaminosis.
Contraindications: the increased blood clotting, sharp diseases of intestines.
- Chestnut
Place of residence: Atlantic coast USA, East Asia, Mediterranean.
Structure: vitamins A, In, With and cellulose.
Advantage: it is useful at a varicosity.
Contraindications: diseases of blood and housing and public utilities, diabetes.
- Pine nuts
Place of residence: Siberia.
Structure: vitamins B, E, P, iodine, phosphorus, zinc, cobalt, manganese.
Advantage: it is useful at an allergy and an immunodeficiency.
Contraindications: no.
- Cashew
Place of residence: Africa, South America, Southeast and Southern Asia.
Structure: vitamins B, RR, E, zinc, calcium, selenium, potassium, manganese, sodium.
Advantage: it is useful at diseases of heart, vessels, teeth and at skin diseases.
Contraindications: individual intolerance.
- Coconut
Place of residence: Southeast Asia.
Structure: vitamins B, With, calcium, potassium, sodium, iron.
Advantage: helps at diarrhea, increases immunity, strengthens hair.
Contraindications: no.
- Hazelnut
Place of residence: Northern hemisphere.
Structure: vitamins A, In, With, E, RR, phosphorus, potassium, iodine, magnesium, iron.
Advantage: it is useful at cardiovascular diseases, an anemia, chronic fatigue.
Contraindications: can cause skin diseases.
- Almonds
Place of residence: Central Asia, Mediterranean, California.
Structure: vitamin E.
Advantage: slows down skin aging.
Contraindications: it is impossible to use too much; violations of work of nervous system and violation of a warm rhythm.
- Black fox
Place of residence: Crimea, South USA, Central Asia, Caucasus.
Structure: vitamins A, B4, B9, E, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium.
Advantage: it is useful at chronic fatigue and avitaminosis.
Contraindications: strong allergen.
- Pistachios
Place of residence: Northeast Africa, Mediterranean, Central America, Asia.
Structure: B6, E vitamins, phosphorus, manganese, copper.
Advantage: strengthen bones, keep sight.
Contraindications: strong allergen.
- Filbert
Place of residence: Asia Minor, Southeast Europe.
Structure: vitamin E, cobalt, potassium, iron, are a lot of protein (15-20%).
Advantage: cleans an organism, increases immunity.
Contraindications: severe forms of diabetes and chronic diseases of a liver.