Walnuts - remedy for depression

It has been proven that eating walnuts helps to reduce cholesterol levels in the body. Now scientists have found that nuts also help to reduce stress levels and blood pressure.

The researchers conducted an experiment with volunteers. The latter should have been either to address the audience with a speech or immersed his feet in cold water. Both of these tests - strong stressors to the human psyche. Previously part of the volunteers sat on a diet with a high content walnuts and walnut oil . Another group was fed the same as was used prior to the experiment. The third group of participants used walnuts and flaxseed oil.

Analysis of the state of the subjects showed the following. Those participants whose diets were present walnuts and peanut butter Had a lower blood pressure . A diet with walnuts and flaxseed oil also gave good results. Linseed oil has no effect on the pressure, but avoids inflammation in blood vessels. According to head of the study, Professor Sheila West from the University of Pennsylvania (USA), their work and its results prove conclusively that walnuts lower blood pressure during stress.

This fact is not without significance for human health. After all, a strong reaction to stress - a factor in the development of cardiovascular diseases.

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