15 Dec Nuts to You!
From Brody blog, New York Times
Found this post by health nut Jane Brody in her Personal Health blog in the New York Times and wanted to share. Don’t know about you, but our snack dish is regularly stocked with pistachios, walnuts, and almonds – and gets emptied out pretty quickly. Plus Clint Viebrock is who he is (pretty fabulous) in large part because of peanut butter. Turns out nuts might be the new quinoa or chia seeds. Read on for more….
Nuts to you! No, that’s not an insult. It’s a recommendation to add nuts to your diet for the sake of your health and longevity.
Consistent evidence for the health benefits of nuts has been accumulating since the early 1990s. Frequent nut consumption has been linked to a reduced risk of major chronic diseases, including heart and blood vessel disorders and Type 2 diabetes.
The newest and most convincing findings, reported last month in The New England Journal of Medicine, come from the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, which together have followed nearly 119,000 women and men for decades. Both studies repeatedly recorded what the participants ate (among many other characteristics) and analyzed their diets in relation to the causes of death among the 27,429 people who died since the studies began.
The more often nuts were consumed, the less likely participants were to die of cancer, heart disease and respiratory disease…
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