5. Peanut Butter 花生酱

If you want a healthy heart, spread your morning toast with peanut butter. Heart disease is the leading killer of men and women, but men fall victim at an earlier age. Researchers compared the cholesterol-lowering effect with a higher-fat diet based on peanuts. After 24 days both diets lowered "bad" LDL cholesterol. But the peanut plan also caused a drop in blood fats called triglycerides and did not decrease HDL, the "good" cholesterol.

如果你想拥有一颗健康的心脏，那么在早餐的面包片上涂点花生酱吧。心脏方面的疾病是男女的致命杀手，中年男性更是深受其害。研究者比较了食用低胆固醇食品和含有更多脂肪的花生对心脏的影响。实验进行了24天后，两种饮食均可以降低有害的低密度脂蛋白胆固醇的含量。与此同时，花生组还导致了血脂即甘油三酸酯的降低，且没有减少高密度脂蛋白胆固醇的含量。

Peanut butter is a little higher in fat, but it's the type that's good for you--monounsaturated fat. Just don't go nutty plastering on the tasty spread, since it is high in calories.

花生酱的脂肪含量有些许高，然而这是一种对你有益的单不饱和性脂肪。当然你要注意别贪嘴涂抹过多的花生酱，毕竟它拥有较高的卡路里含量。