In the New Year, all kinds of nut snack packages are coming, how can you refuse to eat them? Unfortunately, as an out-and-out foodie, some people have a dream of losing weight. Seeing the calories of nuts, foodies had to let go of them.
Will eating high-calorie nuts really make you gain weight?
6 walnuts are equivalent to a bowl of rice. At first glance, the heat is really scary. The fat content of nuts can seem worrying, and the fat content of ordinary nuts ranges from 40% to 80%. However, judging that nuts will make you fat just by their high calorie content would be a big mistake!
Reuters has reported a new study in the United States that proves that nuts can help you lose weight! Scientists analyzed the eating habits of 803 subjects and found that those who ate the most tree nuts, such as pine nuts, almonds, and walnuts, were 37% to 46% less likely to be obese than those who ate the least.
Some people have said that nuts are high in calories and fat, so they can lose weight? It just doesn’t make sense! Here, the editor wants to defend the nuts. Nuts are indeed high in fat, but the fats in nuts are unsaturated fatty acids. The intake of unsaturated fatty acids and high-protein foods in nuts will increase the thermic effect of food to a certain extent, so that eating itself causes a lot of energy consumption. In addition, nuts are rich in dietary fiber. Dietary fiber is a kind of polysaccharide, which is not easily absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract, has low calories, and has a strong sense of satiety. So with nuts, we don’t have to eat a lot to feel full. Nuts also contain a “weight loss tool” – dietary fiber. Dietary fiber can promote gastrointestinal motility, speed up the passage of food through the gastrointestinal tract, and reduce absorption. It also softens stools and improves constipation, which is great for weight loss. Other studies have pointed out that nuts also contain many active substances, such as polyphenols, catechins, and epicatechins. These substances can promote metabolism and have a certain weight loss effect.
So, everyone, don’t blame nuts, and don’t blame nuts for the obesity caused by eating Hu Saihai!
Can nuts be used to lose weight? Can you eat them arbitrarily?
However, although nuts have a certain effect on weight loss, this does not mean that nuts can be eaten arbitrarily. Almost all food that can be put into the mouth will bring calories to people, gluttonous, even if the food has a weight loss effect, it will not be able to make you thin. Even the apples that we often say are weight loss experts, if you eat too much, you will gain weight, let alone nuts?
As a senior foodie, in order to eat more nuts, the editor took great pains to find a way to eat nuts without gaining weight:
- Find a Nutty Companion
Eating nuts while watching the Spring Festival Gala after dinner, you will eat too much before you know it. Studies have shown that adding nuts to a meal and eating starchy foods can make you feel fuller longer. Therefore, nuts should not be eaten after meals, but should be eaten before meals or with meals. - Pick the “unpalatable” nuts
At the beginning of human beings, we are inherently “lazy”, and we eat whatever is easy to get into our mouths. But it takes a lot of hard work to peel the shells to get the mouth, and people are too lazy to eat, the speed of eating will be much slower, and the amount of food will naturally be less. In order to avoid being uncontrollable and greedy for nuts, you can choose some hard-to-peel nuts, such as pumpkin seeds, pine nuts, walnuts in shell, etc. - Don’t eat fried nuts
Fried peanuts, fried almonds, etc. taste good, but they have more fat, higher calories, and B vitamins are destroyed. In order to eat healthy and assured, it is better to detour the nuts processed by roasting, frying, boiling, marinating and other methods.
