5. Peanut Butter 花生醬

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.

如果你想擁有一顆健康的心臟，那么在早餐的面包片上涂點花生醬吧。心臟方面的疾病是男女的致命殺手，中年男性更是深受其害。研究者比較了食用低膽固醇食品和含有更多脂肪的花生對心臟的影響。實驗進行了24天后，兩種飲食均可以降低有害的低密度脂蛋白膽固醇的含量。與此同時，花生組還導致了血脂即甘油三酸酯的降低，且沒有減少高密度脂蛋白膽固醇的含量。

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.

花生醬的脂肪含量有些許高，然而這是一種對你有益的單不飽和性脂肪。當然你要注意別貪嘴涂抹過多的花生醬，畢竟它擁有較高的卡路里含量。