In 1992, the United States of America, California Loma Linda University reported for the first time, regular consumption of peanuts and other nuts, can reduce the risk of heart disease. 1995 U.S. Dietary Guidelines Committee to the peanuts and other nuts as part of a healthy diet, to encourage people to eat peanuts. 2004 U.S. Pennsylvania State University study showed that peanut diets help to improve the composition of the blood lipids. Domestic experts have also recently certified this claim. "More than 75 percent of peanut fat is unsaturated fatty acids that are beneficial to the body and contain no cholesterol." As for the preventive role that peanuts play in cardiovascular diseases, Wang Wei, director of surgery at Fu Wai Cardiovascular Disease Hospital in Beijing, believes that it is related. He further explained that the tetraenoic acid in peanuts belongs to unsaturated fatty acids, with the function of lowering blood lipids and serum cholesterol, which can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, prevent platelet aggregation, and stop the formation of thrombus, which in a sense is similar to the role of aspirin. The human body can not synthesize unsaturated fatty acids, must be through dietary intake. Director Wang Wei also mentioned that although the unsaturated fatty acids in peanuts have certain benefits for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, but exactly how much to reach in order to play a role, there is no definitive research data to confirm, but the benefits of eating more peanuts is indisputable.
The former president of Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, doctoral supervisor Prof. Fang Dingya pointed out that peanuts can be used as medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, and how much it can play a role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease is not yet certain. However, it is certain that the red skin on the outside of the peanut kernel can promote platelet generation, it can avoid platelet aggregation. In this sense, peanuts will have a role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Because platelets are easy to combine with the body's fibrinogen to form plaque, plaque more will cause blood vessel narrowing, coronary heart disease will occur. Has been circulating such a practice: the peanut kernels fried, the red skin peeled off into tablets for the treatment of platelet deficiencies in a variety of diseases. Therefore, Prof. Fang reminded everyone to eat peanuts, it is best to eat even the red skin.