THIS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, Make Almonds Your Best Friend!

Almonds are useful in keeping away lifestyle diseases like obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Not only this, loaded with vitamins and minerals, stacked with nutrients and easy to add to one’s daily diet, almonds are in every way the wonder food for the wonder woman of today.

Almonds are rich in antioxidants, manganese, riboflavin, and copper, all of which aid in energy production, making them a high octane fuel for busy women to maintain the required energy levels during the course of a hectic day spent taking care of loved ones.

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Diet, Nutrition and Wellness consultant Sheela Krishnaswamy said, “Whether you are a home maker or a working woman, regular consumption of almonds can contribute significantly to your overall well being and consequently the well being of everyone who depends upon you.”

According to the American Heart Association, one in every three women suffer from heart diseases, and Indian women are also at high risk of heart related ailments. According to the latest findings of the landmark Spanish Predimed trail report published by the New England Journal of Medicine, about 30 per cent of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts including almonds, when compared with a low-fat control diet.

 She further said, “Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in urban cities in India, accounting for 30% of all cancers in women. Research has shown that flavonoids are implicated in the natural removal of cancer-causing agents in the body.