Are Nuts Really Healthy?
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 3 October 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Should you be eating nuts? Many have sworn them off from their diet because of their high fat and caloric content. Others are just nutty about them and claim they are the key to living a longer life. So who is right?
"The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll and dietician Lee Crosby attempt to crack the shell of this case!
In this episode, you will learn which type of nuts are the healthiest and how they can play a pivotal role in combatting heart disease, cancer and diabetes. For such a small food, they can pack a mighty nutrition punch!
You'll also hear just how many nuts you should eat every day to avoid gaining weight.
Plus, celebrity chef Toni Fiore stops by for a chat. She chronicles her rise from humble culinary beginnings to hosting Delicious TV's Totally Vegetarian and authoring Totally Vegetarian: Easy, Fast, Comforting Cooking for Every Kind of Vegetarian. She's also the host of the VegEZ podcast.
In This Episode
- The healthiest varieties of nuts
- Tips to make sure you don't eat too many
- The link between nuts and lower risks of heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and cancer
- The link between nuts and lower cholesterol
- The link between nuts and longer lifespans
- Getting Omega-3 fatty acids from nuts
- The fiber content of nuts
- How vitamin E in nuts can prevent arterial blockage
- How nuts help prevent atrial fibrillation
- The health benefits of:
- Macadamia nuts
- Pecans
- Peanuts
- Walnuts
- Brazil nuts
- Pumpkin seeds
- Sunflower seeds
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| 0:00.0 | I welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:13.0 | I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:15.8 | Thanks for joining us today, you health nut. |
| 0:19.7 | And that is the question of the day. |
| 0:22.9 | Or nuts, really healthy. |
| 0:25.4 | Can they be part of a healthy diet? |
| 0:26.9 | No, nuts, they are really high in fat and calories. |
| 0:31.9 | But can those high fat nuts still be part of a healthy diet? |
| 0:37.9 | Hmm, that is a question that gets debated quite a bit. |
| 0:42.1 | So to get to the bottom of it, to crack the case like a nutshell, |
| 0:46.7 | I'm welcoming registered dietitian Lee Crawls be back onto the program |
| 0:50.3 | from upstairs at the Barnard Medical Center. |
| 0:52.6 | As always, she is just a wealth of information. |
| 0:56.2 | She comes armed with an arsenal of knowledge. |
| 1:00.0 | It is just phenomenal. |
| 1:01.4 | So here's what you're going to learn over the next half hour or so. |
| 1:05.2 | We're going to tell you what the healthiest varieties of nuts are. |
| 1:08.9 | And we're going to talk about the link between nuts and lower risks |
| 1:12.5 | of heart disease, strokes, diabetes cancer, |
| 1:16.0 | and how they could even help lower cholesterol while lengthening your lifespan. |
| 1:23.2 | We're going to talk about getting omega-3 fatty acids through nuts |
| 1:26.6 | and Lee's favorite, the fiber that are also found in these nuts. |
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