New Delhi: It looks and sounds as a metaphor of wellness.
Sample a Walnut. The eatable stuff is ensconced inside an impregnable wall. Being protective is intrinsic to both its name and structure. And when we snack on them, they are as much protective for our body. They keep a number of diseases at bay. The nutrients packed in Walnut create veritable protective walls around our heart, knee joint, brain and other vital organs.
Walnut (Akhrot in Hindi) of course has an edge over other nuts like almond, pistachio but the entire genre of nuts has been established as a recipe of sound health and robust immunity in a number of studies.
In the first ever International Summit in India, held on 31st October in Delhi, a large number of nutrition scientists, researchers and specialists doctors from home and abroad went to great lengths to underline the benefits galore that nuts, especially walnut, contain. They established the great efficacy of nuts snacking beyond any doubt.
The upshot of the summit under the aegis of California Walnut Commission was: if India wanted to avert the catastrophe of being world capitals of almost all non- communicable diseases, it would have to change snacking habits from junk food to nuts and whole foods.