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Go Nuts to Lower Your Blood Pressure


Nuts come in small packages, but they pack huge nutritional and healing power – especially when it comes to your blood pressure and cardiovascular health.

And here’s the best news: You don’t have to stuff your cheeks full of them like a chipmunk to reap those benefits. In fact, eating just a few handfuls of nuts per week dramatically reduces your risk of developing heart disease.

How Nuts Beat High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease

As I report in my new book, The 30-Day Blood Pressure Cure (co-authored with Roy Heilbron, MD, who is the co-creator of the world-famous South Beach Diet), several studies show that nuts help lower blood pressure and prolong life.

The latest research followed people who were at risk for heart disease. Scientists found that people eating at least 3 ounces (equivalent to a handful) of nuts per week had 55% fewer deaths due to heart disease than the non-nut control group.

Here’s how significant this is…

If a drug reduced your risk of death by just 20%, it would be trumpeted as a major breakthrough. Even a 5–10% reduction is enough to warrant mass production.

But these are just humble nuts; drug companies have no hand in their creation. Where’s the money in that?

The Heart-Healing Power in Nuts

Nuts are tiny nutritional powerhouses. They are packed with protein, antioxidants, essential fatty acids and fiber. They are also loaded with vitamins and minerals, many of which are known to strengthen the heart and reduce blood pressure.

Almonds and cashews, for example, are loaded with magnesium, a mineral that is essential for healthy hearts in blood flow. Magnesium deficiency causes muscles to constrict, but having enough magnesium makes them relax and open wider – so your heart doesn’t have to work as hard.

Likewise, your heart muscle can spasm and beat irregularly when it has too little magnesium (creating arrhythmias and heart attacks when the deficiency is severe). On the other hand, your heart relaxes when enough magnesium is present.

In fact, many emergency rooms treat heart attack victims with intravenous magnesium to block the excess calcium that causes an “electrical storm” in the heart.

In addition, the protein, good fats and antioxidants that nuts contain actually reduce inflammation in your arteries (one of the primary causes of high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes).

Nuts Are Nature’s Perfect Snack

Nuts are the perfect snack food. They are portable, super-nutritious and don’t need refrigeration.

Nuts are also one of the most filling and hunger-quashing foods there are. This is due to their exceptional protein and fat content.

It is often said that you have to be careful when snacking on nuts because they contain so much fat in so many calories.

But – excuse me – this is nutty advice.

Nuts contain heart-healthy monounsaturated fat, so feel free to indulge. You’ll find that if you pop one nut at a time into your mouth and give it

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a good chewing, they are hard to overeat.

The Ideal Survival Food and Travel Buddy

I always keep a sack of mixed nuts with me wherever I go. I also like to toss them on salads and stir-frys and sprinkle them on my morning yogurt and fresh berries. You can multiply their healing power by combining them with these and other heart-healthy foods, such as steel cut oats and quinoa.

Nut butters are another way to savor the benefits. Spread fresh-ground, non-commercial almond butter or cashew butter on banana and apple slices for a quick pick-me-up. You also can add nut butters to smoothies that stand in as a hasty and hearty meal-in-a-glass.

Shopping in Storage Tips

When shopping, look for raw or lightly-toasted mixed nuts (organic, when possible). If you catch a sale, it’s okay to buy in quantity. Just be sure to stash most of your haul in the freezer. This is because their oils and vitamin E content can go rancid quickly — and consuming spoiled oil is definitely bad for your heart, arteries and general health.

Avoid heavily processed and salted nuts which have been roasted in inflammatory oils (such as sunflower, safflower, canola, and corn oils).

Likewise, take a pass on the caramelized, sugar-coated products, such as “beer nuts.” All that added sugar and corn syrup neutralize the health benefits.

For more tips on using nuts to help drop your blood pressure into the “safety zone,” be sure to take a no-risk preview of The 30-Day Blood Pressure Cure [LINK TO SALES PAGE] right away.

What Are Your Favorite Nut Varieties?

My favorite varieties are tamari-roasted almonds, giant Brazil nuts (loaded with cancer-fighting selenium), and walnuts (perhaps the most heart-healthy nut of them all).

What about you? What are your favorite nuts? And how do you like to enjoy them?

Please share your tips and “nut recipes” with all of us so we can benefit from your wisdom.

Till next time…