nuts are seeds, so why do we eat nuts?

[johndela1]

I've read that we should avoid seeds because they contain antinutrients.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_(fruit)

"A nut in botany is a simple dry fruit with one seed (rarely two) in which the ovary wall becomes very hard (stony or woody) at maturity, and where the seed remains unattached or unfused with the ovary wall"


Is it ideal not to eat nuts at all but just fruits and animal proteins/fats?

[RRM]

True, but in nature classification is usually not that rigid. As there are fruits that are harder to digest than others, so there are seeds that are harder to digest than others, such as nuts. And even within the group of nuts there are stark differences.