TAKE ME, WALNUT ME...

The benefits of walnuts.


How many of you didn't dare to make my sinful walnut tart because you were worried that it was calorie-rich?

My love affair with walnuts started when my mother started putting celery sticks filled with crushed walnuts and cream cheese in my lunch box...she suffered from Psoriasis and was concerned I could inherit it so filled me full of whole foods and nuts. My skin has definitely benefitted. My only problem at the time of her walnut phase was that it also coincided with her carrot juice phase...she had a food processor sent to NZ ( this was the 70's!!) and would juice about a kilo of carrots every day. So I had great skin but rather spooky orange hand and foot palms.

Back to walnuts...
I have just been researching into this wonderful nut and it has much more than calories going for it.

The walnut is considered as one of the world's healthiest foods. It bursting with omega-3. A quarter cup per day will provide you with 90% of your daily intake of Omega- 3. The walnut  "has many potential health benefits ranging from cardiovascular protection, to the promotion of better cognitive function, to anti-inflammatory benefits helpful in asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory skin diseases such as eczema and psoriasis. In addition, walnuts contain an antioxidant compound called ellagic acid that supports the immune system and appears to have several anticancer properties." ( http://www.whfoods.org/)

Best of all eating them LOWERS your risk of weight gain. Eat nuts twice a week and you are much less likely to gain weight than those who don't eat nuts.

So why not improve your health now and take a handful of cardio-protective, anti-inflammatory omega-3 walnuts...take the time to break a few open on the kitchen bench with your children, serve them a crisp cut apple with toasted walnuts....or a piece of walnut tart!!

I'm going to make the most of this walnut season and make my mother's Waldorf Salad for dinner.
See recipe.

For a warming autumn dessert ask your partner to give you a walnut oil body rub.......

Comments

  1. argh would love to eat walnuts but they instantly give me des "afts"
    so.... I have discoverd that almonds are cheap at St Mich....

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  2. um I don't have an ID

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  3. kay one more try... at ID

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  4. What a doofus I am now how simple was that....

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  5. for "aft" sufferers go to pecan, hazelnuts, brazilnuts and almonds..

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  6. Susie i love walnuts !!! your info was great, thanks, am going to try the recipe soon x

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  7. The above comment was me, Sandra, forgot to put my name ha ha

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  8. Just an after thought for my US friends...this recipe works just as well with Pecans...in fact its rather wonderful. Toast them briefly first.

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