In a study that examined the diets of more than 100,000 people and their survival over a 30-year period, researchers have found that one food in particular gives you a 20 percent better chance of not dying over that period of time. It also keeps your weight down while reducing your risk of cancer and heart disease.
Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health discovered that eating a diet replete with nuts boosts life expectancy.“The most obvious benefit was a reduction of 29 percent in deaths from heart disease — the major killer of people in America,” says researcher Charles S. Fuchs. “But we also saw a significant reduction — 11 percent — in the risk of dying from cancer.”
Whether any specific type or types of nuts were crucial to the protective effect couldn’t be determined. But the life expectancy benefits were found to be similar both for peanuts and for tree nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, macadamias, pecans, cashews, pistachios and pine nuts).
“In all these analyses, the more nuts people ate, the less likely they were to die over the 30-year follow-up period,” says researcher Ying Bao.
The people in the study who ate nuts less than once a week had a 7 percent reduction in mortality; once a week, 11 percent reduction; two to four times per week, 13 percent reduction; five to six times per week, 15 percent reduction, and seven or more times a week, a 20 percent reduction in death rate.
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