Common food item can lower your risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes

Butter can actually reduce your risk of heart conditions, scientists say.

Having a teaspoon per day appeared to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by a third party.

The study, published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, showed that butter stimulates “good” cholesterol – which helps to remove harmful fats that are known to cause heart attacks and strokes.

Scientists from Boston University followed 2500 men and women older than 30 years for decades and noticed what they ate and how much had developed heart conditions.

Those who ate five grams of butter a day or more were 31 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes – usually caused by a poor diet and lifestyle – than people who eat little or no butter.

Margarines – often promoted as “healthy” alternatives to butter – increased the risk of diabetes by more than 40 percent and heart problems by 30 percent.

Researchers set it down on the unhealthy “trans fats” used in Margarines from the 1970s – now largely dumped by spread manufacturers.

Eating some of the beans per day can also defeat your risk of fatal heart attack or stroke, new research shows.

Beans – whether they are dried, canned or frozen – can stimulate the heart and metabolic health, according to scientists.

Daily parts of chickpeas and black beans can serve as a “simple, cost -effective” way to reduce the risk of chronic diseases, they said.

The new study connects chickpeas to improved cholesterol levels, in which black beans seemed to reduce the inflammation.