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Munching Crunchy Soy Nuts Good For You

The goodness of soy foods is well known. Soy foods contain phytochemicals that are known to prevent heart diseases and cancer. Now, researchers have found that munching half a cup of soy nuts could lower blood pressure in postmenopausal women.

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A study was conducted on sixty post menopausal women, with twelve of whom suffered from hypertension. All of them were on Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) diet, which involves cutting fat, cholesterol, sodium and calories for eight weeks. The next eight weeks, they added half-cup of dry roasted and unsalted nuts along with the TLC diet and an equivalent amount of protein amount was reduced from the diet so that the protein consumption was same.

It was found that the blood pressures of these women were lowered considerably when they consumed soy nuts than when they were on TLC diet alone. The researchers chose soy nuts among all soy foods as that were more convenient to carry along than soy milk or tofu. It was also found that women showed an 11-percent reduction in their low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or “bad” cholesterol.
Researchers recommend people include soy nuts and soy milk in their diet to help lower their blood pressure.

Could these be fattening? Yes, munching more than an ounce of soy nuts could actually make you fat. And, of course salted nuts add up another problem-water retention. But, when compared to dry roasted peanuts as a snack, soynuts have half the fat and double the protein.

So, while soy nuts are a healthy snack option, it’s advised that you go for one-ounce of unsalted nuts a day to be on the safer side.

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