It's safe to say that walnuts are a widely used, and all-beloved, product.
He has been well acquainted with us since childhood, pleasing with his appearance in New Year's gifts, attending festive dishes, and regularly decorating our table as a tasty and useful treat.
But few know what gifts he provides us, and in fact can be of invaluable health benefits to everyone.
- origins authority
- Stand in front of me
- Food for Thought
- Heart maker
- Immune Shield
- Men's Health
- Excellent mood
- No diabetes
- Against Cancer
- Gift digestion
- Contraindications
- no harm
origins
authority about the positiveThe influence of the walnut is also confirmed by the treatises of Hippocrates.
It is known that it has been used by man for more than four thousand years, and not only as a delicious product.
In the writings of the famous healer Avicenna walnut is mentioned as an effective tool for the treatment of tuberculosis.
And folk healers for a long time and still use it patients with kidney pathology and are strongly recommended for violations of brain activity.
In the legends of ancient Greece, this walnut appears as the food of the gods, periodically descending to the ground for reinforcement.
Despite the fact that today, under the influence of scrupulous scientific research from a walnut slept a halo of mystery, it continues to be among the most useful and necessary products in the human diet.
Till now in the Caucasian and Moldavian settlements the interesting tradition is alive: at a birth of the child it is necessary to plant for it a nut tree.
Stand in front of me
Voloshsky walnut , as it is called in another way, refers to the trees of the walnut family. This beautiful sprawling tree can reach a height of 25 meters or more, having a trunk width of up to 1.5 in diameter.
Wide and very large leaves fall for the winter, but in the summer they are pleasantly fragrant due to essential oils contained in them.
After the flowering period, small greenish earrings of flowers on the branches are fastened with fruits with thick leathery fibrous skin and a strong bone inside.
As ripening, the peel gradually dries up, bursting into two parts, but the bone does not open.
Perhaps the most remarkable property of a walnut is the high content of fats, and consequently - the huge calorie content.
100 grams of the product accounts for more than half( !) Of fat - as much as 60 grams, and this is 650 kilocalories( more than in chocolate bars!).
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Therefore, nuts are not recommended for people with a problem of excess weight.
Well, those who are not moderate in use, and at all can face obesity. The daily portion should not exceed 2-3 nucleoli of a nut.
With all this, this "fly in the ointment" is too small to damage the whole "barrel" of useful quality walnuts. And even in spite of the huge fat content, walnuts can reduce cholesterol.
For example, in an experiment conducted with volunteers, 20% of the daily caloric intake came into the body with walnuts.
Despite this, at the end of the experiment, the content of cholesterol in the blood of volunteers decreased, on average, by 12%.
It is worth saying that not only nuts, but also all other parts of the plant are nourished with unusually valuable useful biologically active substances.
For example, triterpenoids, alkaloids, steroids, quinones, tannins and vitamin C have been found in the bark of the tree.
The walnut leaves were rich in aldehydes and alkaloids, coumarins and essential oils, flavonoids and phenolcarboxylic acids, as well as vitamins B1, PP and ascorbic acid, the concentration of which is maximal in the middle of the growing season.
But the main value of the leaves was a high content of carotene.
Green, still unripe nuts already contain carotene, quinones and B vitamins, ascorbic acid and carotene.
What can we say about the mature nuclei, which, as follows from the famous Pushkin fairy tale represent a "pure emerald" for the abundance of good.
Take at least the basic ingredients:
- quinones,
- sitosterols,
- vitamins E, C, PP, B2, B1
- carotene,
- tannins,
- fatty oils( represented by linoleic, linolenic, palmitic, oleic and other acids)
- zinc,cobalt, copper, iron, iodine, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus
- cellulose.
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Among other things, the fruit of the walnut contains a lot of valuable protein, which is quite capable of replacing animal origin.
The walnut shell was also useful. In fact, it is not inferior to the core in its value, phenolic carboxylic acids, tannins and coumarins have been found in it.
And even a thin brown film on the surface of the fetus( pellicle) is saturated with steroids, coumarins, phenolcarboxylic acids and tanning substances.
Food for the mind
Watching the stunning resemblance of nut kernels to the human brain, the ancients attributed to him the property of healing the headache and serving as food for the mind.
In Russia, in the 18th century, doctors called the walnut kernels "a feast for the brain".
Studies of our contemporaries fully confirmed these conjectures, discovering in the nut a whole complex of components that favorably affect the cerebral vessels.
Walnut is the best preventive and curative remedy for atherosclerosis, nervous overstrain and increased brain activity.
Regular consumption of even a small amount of walnuts can improve memory and delay the approach of old age.
Cardiovascular Master
The mature nucleus is literally saturated with the strongest antioxidants, it contains up to 80% of mono- and polyunsaturated fatty acids, acting like a shield in all diseases of the cardiovascular system.
Thanks to the content of vitamins A and E, the nut well strengthens the walls of the vessels, helps dissolve atherosclerotic plaques, thereby improving the blood supply to the heart, and hence all internal organs.
And on the content of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, protecting against atherosclerosis and hypertension, walnut belongs to the champion title among all nut friends.
Immune Shield
At first glance, it would seem amazing that the walnut is an order ahead of such unconditional leaders in terms of vitamin C content, which were always considered citrus fruits, dried apricots( properties) or black currants.
This is why it is known as a general restorative and a means to enhance immunity.
A set of vitamins, minerals and biologically active substances contained in the nut is especially useful in the off-season, when the lack of vitamins is more acute.
In addition, in such periods, especially need protection from the common cold and strong immunity - and here the nut will come to the rescue.
Weakened immune defense is associated with anemia and a decreased level of hemoglobin. To cope with this problem will also help the walnut - it has a lot of iron, necessary for the construction of hemoglobin.
And another kind of protection provides this wonderful fruit of the walnut tree - it mobilizes the body's defenses in an unfavorable radioactive background.
Men's Health
About the benefits and harm of walnuts for men already knew the inhabitants of ancient Greece. They knew the property of the nut to increase muscle strength and endurance, fight fatigue and increase sexual ability.
Nut butter has since been considered the strongest aphrodisiac.
The validity of ancient guesses has been repeatedly confirmed by modern scientific research and experiments.
In one of them, conducted with the participation of volunteers from 20 to 35 years old, in a daily diet there were 75 grams of walnuts.
The result after 2 weeks was a significant improvement in the quality of reproductive biological material.
Excellent mood
A handful of walnuts can give a positive color to your mood. It turned out that they belong to a group of foods along with a soothing tea on herbs( written here) that help the body synthesize serotonin, rightly called the pleasure hormone.
Unlike in the same group of sweets and chocolate, walnuts do not threaten obesity and diabetes - the two main risk factors for heart disease.
This is hindered by the unsaturated fatty acids contained in it, essential amino acids, vitamins and polyphenols.
No diabetes
The latest research in the field of medicine proves the positive effect of walnuts on the health status of patients with diabetes( which foods can not be eaten) of the second type.
Being a rich source of vitamin E and other substances with a pronounced antioxidant orientation, nuts significantly improve insulin performance.
Against oncology
Walnut has established itself as an excellent remedy against neoplasm.
The linoleic omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid in it possesses a unique ability to hinder the development of cancer.
It successfully fights with scars, helps dissolve spikes, fibromas, fibroids, as well as cystic and tumor formations.
Gift of digestion
Walnut has a positive effect on digestion. It is able to eliminate constipation as a domestic laxative for quick action and to normalize the intestinal microflora.
It is advised to use it when the pancreas function is broken, the erosion of the stomach is treated with folk remedies, peptic ulcer diseases.
The fact is that the nut oil contained in the kernels, which is part of diets for treating the stomach( written on this page), helps healing of ulcerous and wound surfaces, so it can reduce the recovery period after surgical treatment, as well as healing of burns.
Contraindications to the use of
Walnuts, of course, are recommended in children's nutrition and in the diet of pregnant and lactating women.
In addition to the listed properties, they also have a lot of positive advantages.
It would seem that, in addition to the benefits of them, nothing to expect.
However, and such a pleasant product in all respects has its contraindications:
- from delicious kernels will have to be abandoned to allergic people, especially if this reaction to the
- protein from consumption should be abstained and obese, especially in the advanced stage of the
- disease in patients with psoriasis,eczema and neurodermatitis nuts are capable of provoking an aggravation of the process, even in a very small amount of
- they are contraindicated in the case of serious diseases of the pancreas and intestines, and sothe same with increased blood clotting.
Do not harm
In some cases, the benefits can turn into harm - when the eaten amount of nuts is much more than the allowable dose.
For example, overeating nuts can cause inflammation of the mucous membranes of the oral cavity and tonsils, and spasm of cerebral vessels, and this is fraught with edema of the larynx and severe headaches.
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