An Handful Of Peanuts Maintain Both Good Health And Heart Health Part2

Peanuts seem to be more heart friendly than any other nuts in the same family of legumes. Another name for this food is groundnuts which is the most common name. But according to Wikipedia, peanut is not actually a nut in the technical sense of the word. It is a legume because it did not develop from a fruit or into a fruit.

There are two types of peanuts to note, the small seed and the large seed varieties. The smaller seeds have a high oil or fat content than the large seeds.

Common sense will tell you to go for the large seeds if you want to lose some weight. Also if you are moderately active go for the large seeds because it will help in controlling weight gain to a reducing or zero level. In other words, the weight you gain from consuming such large seed nuts will be used in your moderate activities and will found no storage space in the body.

Also persons who are afraid of eating peanuts due to fear of gaining weight will do well in taking only a small handful of the large nuts say 3.5 oz which is about 26 pieces (seeds) of the nuts to munch daily along with meals. 

This will help protection against heart related and coronary heart diseases, and other age relate cognitive decline issues and stroke.

As a person who has been eating these peanuts daily for years, I eat them daily with any meal. I eat them with my breakfasts and lunch or supper. For example, I add them to all my oat meals and rice.  Peanut and semi-brown rice makes a good combination in protein food complements; and in food synergy. I take some as snacks. So far, I eat peanuts three times in a day, morning, noon and evening either alone or with any other of my meals as a supplement or complement.

All the talks about health risks with the exception of allergy reactions in certain persons, is negative.

Health Benefit

I am a fitness nut. I do not mean I am an expert in fitness program. I mean I regularly take into keeping my body fit. This again helps in stretching my mind rigorously, like as we say that a healthy mind is found in a healthy body. I exercise a lot, jogging, swimming, walking and aerobic. All these exercises are a keep me fit.

As such, I have to take very good care of my heart. I go for peanuts in this. So far, I have not experienced any negative issue that needs a medical attention in this respect.

You see peanuts are very rich in monounsaturated fats. Its polyunsaturated oils or fats do not possess any health risk. They do not clog or harden your circulatory system, but only promote heart health in addition to many other health benefits.

If you like eggs, milk, red meat and margarine like as I do, or any other hard fat, take a generous treat of peanuts along with these food items. This will help the saturate fats in the animal products to become unsaturated after digestion. 

In doubt this? Take some fresh red meat in a cooking pot and some peanuts with no water to simmer for 15 to 20 minutes. Removed from heat and allow to cool for one hour. Check if you can see any hard animal fat as it usually happen when fresh red meat is treated alone to simmer. The oil from the nuts will melt the fats from the meat due to the nuts unsaturatedness. 

 In fact, the diary products will complement the lack of two essential amino acids in the peanut. Another good thing to note is that no more hardening of the arteries walls will result.

This is because the nuts contain resveratrol, a flavonoid or phytonutrient that help blood flow into the brain thereby containing the risk of a stroke. Resveratrrol dilate the blood vessels to help the blood flow via, the production of nitric oxide. 

The nut is rich in oleic acid and palmitic acid found in olive oil and palm oil respectively. It is a good source of vitamin B-complex and rich in iron. Although peanuts have zero or negligible vitamin C, you can sprout them to produce the vitamin for a recipe meal.

Numerous scientific studies have shown that people who eat peanuts have less risk of cardiovascular and coronary heart diseases. Due to this, it was suggested that people eat an handful of these nuts four times in the week. In other words, you should be eating these tasty nuts every week; and if you can do this daily, all the better.

People smoke every day. People drink whisky, wines and gins every day. They say it is a social benefit or status.  It was recommended their reduced smoking and drinking to a certain amount not in a week, but in volumes daily!  All this to prevent an heart attack. And these people go on drinking DAILY the limit suggested by doctors or scientists?

But to my surprise in researching this, peanut was not suggested to be eaten daily. It was to be eaten four times in a week. I think the scientific world at times did not understand its stands well.

Protective Values

Peanuts will protect you against colon cancer. It is good in dietary fibers. Be sure to include fresh fruits and vegetables with peanuts in salad form always. I include tiny mullets thrice the size of the nuts in such salads. It complement the lack of amino acids in the nut protein.

It will further prevent and protect you against alzheimer’s disease.

It will maintain your body temperature to the extend that you are properly insulated against a cold environment other than a virus attack.

For these reasons, take an handful always with ALL your meals. The best way I can recommend is for you to slightly roast them half done. In this way, increasing they antioxidant content, and you get better health value from eating them.

Food Value

The overall food value can be seen at a glance thus:

Carbohydrates 21%

Fats 48%

Protein 25%

Water 4.26

Others including vitamin and mineral matters 1.94g

This is for 100g or 3 1/2 oz of raw peanuts.

To your good health!

A tomato Cucumber Onion Salad Made With Peanuts And Green Vegetables

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An Handful Of Peanuts Daily Maintain Both Good Health And Heart Health Part1

Peanuts are good body building foods. They contain the vitamin the body need for growth (including vitamin C in their raw state) and all necessary metabolic functions. They contain carbohydrates, fats and proteins.

They proteins are not necessary complete or first class, but nevertheless an important source of the protein food that the body need for growth and repair. Raw peanuts contain carbohydrates, fats and proteins.

An handful of these tiny nuts as part of your breakfast or lunch meals can maintain the synergy balance in the body. I regularly take peanuts in all my meals whether breakfast, lunch and supper. If I need to snack a meal, freshly roasted peanuts half in raw state with a cup of black tea or added milk is all that I need to keep the energy synergy balance for the day.

Today, I roasted some handful of these raw peanuts to keep me energetic with a cup of black tea very early in the morning while hitting away on my computer keyboard to let this story out.

I have been eating peanuts since as a kid. At times I just take a tablespoonful of these nuts in the raw state. I mean I eat these without roasting them in a heating pan. And the best part of all this is that I do not get any health risk or symptoms as many can claim.

Eating peanuts in its raw state or half done or fully done do not possess and health risks. It is when you over treat the nuts in the heat or over boiling them and destroying many of its valuable vitamins and mineral matters that health hazards can result.

Peanuts have vitamin C. Vitamin C is water soluble and is destroyed by heating. Likewise, all its vitamin B complex vitamins is again destroyed by overheating in the barking pan or any source you use to treat the nuts. What about its fat soluble vitamins like A, E and D? Remember peanut is a vegetable. All these can be destroyed during the roasting or barking process if care is not taken. Even its digestible carbs, fats and proteins can all be destroyed over prolong heating. Just take an handful of the nuts now if you care into a pan. Put it on heat 30^o C for only 5 minutes. It will turn black by overheating. This is a sign that it is overdone and yet the carbs got overheat including the fats. And so, all the valuable foodstuff is now a complete trash, undigestible and unfit for human consumption.

Eating such treated nuts is what cause ill-health in the first place. We think well roasted peanuts is more digestible than the half done ones. This is a misinformation on good diet.This is where skin disease, acne, pimples, blockheads, and so on came into being.

Peanuts are not your problems. These nuts are your friends. Treat them as such or as you would treat any of your human friends, you know what.

Some say it will caused you eye and breathing problems. I have not experienced such an issue. Is the subject affect being allergic to the nuts? If so, a piece of the nut overtime can help cure the issue until the body adopted itself to the nut. This is the medica materia rule of thumb, in other words, like is treat by like. I think you can understand this well. Just a piece of the nut or two taken overtime can help relief the allergic symptoms period.

Weight Issues

If you are underweight, peanuts will help you put on weight. 

To achieve this feat, you have to take some handful daily, morning or afternoon. There was a period in my life I release I am losing much weigh due to relying on much convenience foods. I start to eat half a cup daily. I begin to gain some weight.

You can do that too and it is not much an effort. Just put two handful of the nuts in a barking pan and turn on low heat 20^oC and stir same for over 5 minutes and it will be done half in the raw state.

Take this with a cup of black or red tea and add milk into it to make the snack a complete protein.

Do this for over a month daily and it will surprise you how much weight you have gain.

Again, there was a period in my life I began to be very active in building my body muscles. Peanuts serve as my main supplement along with any natural meal. I will just roast one cup and chew them up and two hours before the exercise program and I proved ill-health wrong, especially cough as it is claimed.

Peanut Myths

I was a small boy and the elders say it cause cough. We are helping to treating the nuts by sieving the good nuts from the rotten items along with some small pieces of stones. We small ones will like to chew some nuts raw. Apparently they want to discourage us from eating same. They would have done a better example by taking some and treating them healthy for us. We small ones should have been grateful for the kind gesture and bless them but this was not done; so we go on eating the nuts raw. I do not remember getting sick and seeing any other of my mates sick till date.

They say it also cause eye problems. I have the healthiest eye and I do not need a glass to read even at 58 years.  Again, all my mates who eat same raw nuts I have not seen putting on eye glasses!

Peanut myth is a zero.

To your good health!

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