Does your bowl of fruit salad, steamy oatmeal, or creamy yogurt need a little more oomph?
For extra texture and a heart-health boost, sprinkle on some toasted walnuts. You'll add a nice crunch quality and also help lower your cholesterol. Just 8 to 13 nuts a day may be all you need in order to drop your LDL (that's the bad stuff) by 6 percent.
Helping Your Heart Two Ways
When men and women with moderately high cholesterol replaced some of the monounsaturated fat in their diets with as few as 8 to 13 walnuts a day, their cholesterol dropped and their blood vessels dilated more readily -- allowing blood to flow more freely through arteries that supply the heart and brain. (What else can you eat to help lower your cholesterol? Find out here.)
Good and Plenty
What's in walnuts that keeps your arteries in the clear? Quite a lot -- like cell-protecting antioxidants, inflammation-fighting fatty acids, and healthy amounts of L-arginine -- an amino acid that helps control blood pressure. Kick up the crunch quotient in your afternoon snack with this seriously yummy Apricot-Walnut Cereal Bar recipe.
See how healthy your heart is. Take the RealAge Cholesterol Quiz.
RealAge Benefit: Lowering your bad (LDL) cholesterol can make your RealAge 3.3 years younger if you are a man and 0.6 years younger if you are a woman.
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For extra texture and a heart-health boost, sprinkle on some toasted walnuts. You'll add a nice crunch quality and also help lower your cholesterol. Just 8 to 13 nuts a day may be all you need in order to drop your LDL (that's the bad stuff) by 6 percent.
Helping Your Heart Two Ways
When men and women with moderately high cholesterol replaced some of the monounsaturated fat in their diets with as few as 8 to 13 walnuts a day, their cholesterol dropped and their blood vessels dilated more readily -- allowing blood to flow more freely through arteries that supply the heart and brain. (What else can you eat to help lower your cholesterol? Find out here.)
Good and Plenty
What's in walnuts that keeps your arteries in the clear? Quite a lot -- like cell-protecting antioxidants, inflammation-fighting fatty acids, and healthy amounts of L-arginine -- an amino acid that helps control blood pressure. Kick up the crunch quotient in your afternoon snack with this seriously yummy Apricot-Walnut Cereal Bar recipe.
See how healthy your heart is. Take the RealAge Cholesterol Quiz.
RealAge Benefit: Lowering your bad (LDL) cholesterol can make your RealAge 3.3 years younger if you are a man and 0.6 years younger if you are a woman.
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Try It: Lower your LDL cholesterol with organic raw walnuts  from Shop Natural. One of the most popular nuts throughout the world, walnuts are easily incorporated into salads and grain or vegetable dishes. And they make a quick and delicious snack.
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