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Heavy weight leads to metabolic and cardio vascular diseases. And reducing weight with insufficient diet also put you on high risk.

Researchers found that almonds could reduce belly fat and lower the risk of heart disease. Reducing abdominal fat is particularly beneficial given its connection to metabolic syndrome and increased risk for heart disease. According to the study, that was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

The observation gave a good amount of benefits from consuming the almonds in our snacks. The diet containing the almond snack, compared to the muffin snack, decreased total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol non-HDL-cholesterol and remnant lipoproteins.

The twelve-week, randomized, controlled clinical study, led by researchers at Penn State University, was conducted in 52 overweight, middle-aged adults who had high total and LDL cholesterol but were otherwise healthy.

During the study participants have taken cholesterol-lowering diets that were identical except that one group was given a daily snack of 1.5 ounces (42g) of whole natural almonds, while the other group was given a banana muffin that provided the same number of calories.

“Our research found that substituting almonds for a high-carbohydrate snack improved numerous heart health risk factors, including the new finding that eating almonds reduced belly fat,” said Claire Berryman, lead researcher of the study.

“Choosing almonds as a snack may be a simple way to help fight the onset of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases,” said Berryman.

It can be noted that from the extraction, Almonds are good for health and brain besides lowering the abdominal size. Almonds work on the bellies of any size for all age groups. Rich, vitamins and proteins found in almonds makes it so special in precious items.

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