中国营养食谱（China nutrition diet）.doc

中国营养食谱（China nutrition diet） There are two types of nuts: one is tree nuts, including almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, walnuts, pine nuts, chestnut, white fruit (ginkgo), pistachios, macadamia, etc. Second, seeds, including peanuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, etc. Food ingredients from China, the nuts are respectively containing 36.0% protein, fat 58.8%, carbohydrate 72.6%, also contains vitamins (vitamin B and E, etc.), trace element, phosphorus, calcium, zinc, iron), dietary fiber, etc. In addition, it also contains a single, polyunsaturated fatty acid, including linoleic acid, linoleic acid and other essential fatty acids. The health benefits of nuts are mainly shown in the following aspects: scavenging free radicals. Studies have shown that some nuts, such as sunflower seeds, have a strong ability to scavenge free radicals, which can be compared to the ability of strawberries and spinach to scavenge free radicals. Reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes in women. American researchers at the harvard school of public health nutrition department has 84000 in 11 countries 34 to 59 years old women for 16 years, the results showed that eating nuts could significantly reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. They believe that nuts are rich in unsaturated fats and other nutrients that help improve the balance of blood sugar and insulin. Reduce sudden cardiac death rates. Due to some of the nuts - with the role of arrhythmia, therefore, in the heart of the control of the known risk factors and diet, eat nuts and significantly related to reduce sudden cardiac death. Those who ate two or more nuts a week had lower risk of sudden cardiac death and death from coronary heart disease, compared with those who rarely or never ate nuts. Regulate blood lipid. Professor xiao ying, professor of medicine at Peking University, in 2002, took 85 patients with hyperlipidemia and gave them 75 grams of large American almonds every day for four weeks and observed the blood lipid.