The nuts and seeds deliver various health benefits to us. Now, according to the latest study, protein from nuts and seeds could be beneficial for the human heart. International Journal of Epidemiology claims that people who consumed large amounts of meat protein experienced a 60 per cent increase in cardiovascular disease, while people who consumed large amounts of protein from nuts and seeds experienced a 40-per cent reduction in cardiovascular disease.

Gary Fraser, from Loma Linda University in California, said that, while dietary fats are part of the story in affecting risk of cardiovascular disease, proteins may also have important and largely overlooked independent effects on risk.  Fraser further added that nutritionists have traditionally looked toward what he termed bad fats in meats and helpful fats in nuts and seeds as causal agents.

As a result of being high in unsaturated fat, nuts and seeds are traditionally included in the "good fat" category. However, it is also possible that "good protein" that also adds to their positive health impact.

This new evidence suggests that the full picture probably also involves the biological effects of proteins in these foods.

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