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Eat Walnuts and Dates to Stay Strong Physically and Mentally

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Eat Walnuts and Dates to Stay Strong Physically and Mentally

October 30, 2022 , walnuts

 

Digestion

Walnuts and dates both carry a decent amount of fibre, and fibre is one of the more basic things a normal diet tends to run short on. A handful of either makes a more filling snack than most processed alternatives — that’s really the practical upshot for an ordinary stomach on an ordinary day.

Keeping a few walnuts or a couple of dates around as the default snack, instead of reaching for something packaged, is a simple habit worth keeping.

Skin and hair

Skin and hair condition tracks fairly closely with overall diet — nuts and dried fruit bring vitamins and minerals that a diet heavy in processed food often lacks.

Walnuts, almonds, and Kurma Madu Selangor dates carry potassium, magnesium, copper and iron between them — the kind of mineral spread that’s easy to miss if snacking defaults to something processed instead.

Fats and brain-friendly nutrients

Walnuts stand out among nuts for their omega-3 content, higher than almonds or cashews gram for gram, and dates bring B-vitamins to the same handful. Together they’re a reasonable stand-in for a processed snack bar when the goal is simply eating something with real nutritional content between meals.

Sodium and potassium

Dates carry very little sodium and a fair amount of potassium, which puts them well ahead of a salty packaged snack on that front alone. Walnuts add more potassium and magnesium to the same handful. Swapping either in for a bag of crisps changes what’s actually going into the body that afternoon.

 

Minerals for everyday diet

Both walnuts and dates carry copper, iron, and zinc — minerals that show up in a lot of the same conversations about diet quality. Cheese with walnuts and dates makes a reasonably balanced breakfast plate, mixing protein, fat, and fibre in one sitting.