Nuts: How Much Should You Eat? What Type? | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A

I'm a sixty something woman and lost 18 pounds eating nuts and seeds. I just measured them: An 1/8 cup of walnuts and a tablespoon of tahini. These made my salad and my vegetable palatable (and healthier!) Since then, I consume about double that and have maintained 122 pounds ( BMI of 21) for about five years.

If I remember correctly Dr. Greger has a video about nuts and the conclusion is: Natural nuts (no added oil, sugar etc) are not absorb in the same way oil and other processed foods are. A Calorie is not a Calorie when comparing whole foods and processed foods!?

Better snack on nuts than junk food. Maintaining a diet is hard. If nuts help you stay on track I'd say go for it. As long as it's unsalted and without any additives

I'm a fan of the small red lentils as they cook very fast and are a little less gassy than bigger beans. You don't have to soak them either.

I am 63 next month and have been wfpb vegan 3 years now following heart attack in March of 2019. After 6 months of meds and adjusting of diet and lifestyle I started eliminating animal products the last to go were fish and diary. I have cut down but nuts are still included but only 3 half pieces of walnut, 6 almonds, 2 brazils. I had peanut butter every day since a boy but stopped a year ago. I have just started again with a small amount of high oleic p.b and no oil hydrogenated or otherwise. Since I get plenty of exercise I am still losing weight (body fat), now at 70kg/1.78 m instead of 88kg. All health indicators are looking good, no meds, no colds, flu or infections in this time.

Nuts and seeds really helped with leg cramps while I was pregnant. I had a small amount of flax, pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds and walnuts in my oatmeal in the morning. Any day I forgot to eat them, I woke up in the middle of the night in so much pain. Most people tell you to eat a banana if you get leg cramps, but I read one person say nuts helped them, so I gave it a shot. It works!!

Thank you Chuck and Dr. Benard, this has been insightful and helpful. Thank you for the story about the conference with Treeline cheese. I particularly like your analogy Dr. B on "all things in moderation", thank you good point, well thought, and said.

I disagree on not eating nuts if you're trying to lose weight. 1/4 Cup of nuts is only 200 calories at the very most. And they make you feel good, taste good and give you nutrients and add so much to other foods. I'm talking about nuts without any kind of oil or salt added.

Soaked chickpeas cooked 23 min in a pressure cooker, black and kidney beans that's bean soaked cooked like 13 min in the a pressure cooker put it away in the freezer I even use it for my dogs food when I cook for them

I like raw sunflower seeds as a Vitamin E supplement. They are not as addictive as mixed nuts!

Love your show! Thank you so much for all you do to educate us, making us healthier and happier!

This was so helpful! Thanks a million.

Thank u so much Dr Neal Barnard I'm very happy to share your valuable massage how to much shauld our eat ? And so many important healthy food ,and live so many questions n answer . More pls.

Another fantastic episode and I don't eat much vegan cheese because the majority of the vegan cheese in stores is coconut oil based and I want to avoid coconut oil. That means vegan cheese & dairy cheese aren't health foods but both are processed junk foods that I am better off without. I do eat nuts occasionally but they are among the most expensive vegan food.

Dr. Barnard: Thank you for give me so much useful information.

Oh please!! the 60ties were one of my best decades. that is not old. Now over 80 and some things have changed.

Nuts are very filling that eating several can be satiating. If one craves a large amount, then there is something out of balance in one's diet or body.

For cooking beans, Instant Pot aka electric multi-cooker. Turn hours into minutes!

FYI shelled nuts that are NOT organic are sprayed after being shelled with pesticides and fungicides to dry them out and preserve them during shipping. The reason nuts are so addictive is the salt and the dry roasting. Health wise... Organic raw nuts are your best bet.

Beans soak themselves, ha ha, nice one Dr B. Enjoyed your comment that, in nature, nuts are hard to access. That image can help when looking at bags of nuts, how long would it take me to gather and shell all these? Also my favourite cheese is miso cheese made at home. Soak nuts overnight, rinse and blend with fresh water and white miso, leave on kitchen bench a few hours to ferment and it often produces little bubbles. Leave in fridge for a week before using, and it makes a delicious cheese sauce. Can use different nuts or seeds, cashews or sunflower seeds are very good to use, also pumpkin seeds. Thanks both of you for a very useful topic.