Eating nuts 'improves health'
Eating nuts significantly reduces a person's chances of dying from heart disease or cancer, research has shown. Scientists found that the more nuts people ate, the less likely they were to die over a period of 30 years.
Eating nuts 'significantly' reduces health risks
New research suggests a person's chances of dying from heart disease or cancer is reduced "significantly" by eating nuts, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr Charles Fuchs, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, who led the study said: "The most obvious benefit was a reduction of 29 per cent in deaths from heart disease - the major killer of people in America."
He added that there was also a 11 per cent reduction in the risk of people dying from cancer.
The study also found that nut-eaters tend to be more health conscious than average members of the public.
The findings, drawing on data on almost 120,000 US men and women.
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