Inflammation of the pancreas, accompanied by swelling and bleeding of tissues that cause unbearably acute pain, is called pancreatitis. One of the good reasons for this disease is malnutrition.
Such achievements in the chemical food industry as carbonated beverages with artificial colorings and sweeteners, bouillon cubes, mashed potatoes, instant noodles and many other dubiously healthy products have made the pancreatitis disease significantly more important.
If the pancreas used to be worried by the older generation, now the diagnosis of pancreatitis is in most cases posed to young people and to older schoolchildren. But the harmful chips and crackers have a worthy alternative - nuts. They definitely do not harm your health, but make it stronger. For example, such popular varieties of nuts, like cashews and almonds.
Useful properties of almonds and cashews in pancreatitis
Some doctors believe that behind nuts - almonds and cashews are the future. They increase hemoglobin, strengthen immunity, normalize cholesterol level, prevent oncological neoplasms.
In this cashew contains the least amount of fats - 48 g per 100 g of nuts( almonds - 58 g).Therefore, cashew nuts are useful to include in the menu of patients during rehabilitation after exacerbation of pancreatitis. Cashew, restoring the weakened by an attack of pancreatitis organism, unnecessarily overload the pancreas.
Almonds can also be included in the diet of patients with a diseased pancreas, but do not abuse this delicacy so that overeating does not provoke a new attack of the disease.
Cashew is one of the most low-allergenic nuts, so it is often recommended in dietary nutrition in pancreatitis. After all, an allergic reaction can trigger an aggravation of the ailment. But with almonds you should be careful - this nut is a highly allergenic product.
One of the most valuable components that make up cashew nuts and almonds in pancreatitis are:
- Omega 3 - fatty acids, which synthesize in the body the most important bioregulators - eicosanoids. These substances inhibit inflammation of the pancreas and suppress allergens;
- vitamin E contains both varieties of nuts, just in almonds it is much larger. This fat-soluble vitamin is considered to be a powerful antioxidant, namely the concentration of these protective substances is lowered in the blood in pancreatitis.