Bake with This for Healthier Arteries - Page 2

Go a Little Nuts
You don't have to eat a whole meal of pecans to get benefits from this toasty little hickory fruit. Just be creative in how you cook throughout the day. Baking with pecan flour is a great way to replace nutritionally empty calories -- like white flour -- with something that does a body good. You can even add ground pecans to ground beef to make healthier burgers. And add some crunch to oatmeal, salads, and yogurt with some chopped pecans on top. Researchers think pecans may be particularly healthy because they have some of the highest levels of antioxidant phenols around, compared with other nuts. (Here's how to eat lots of nuts without worrying about weight gain.)

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