From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
People have long known that nuts are part of a healthy diet. However, scientists in the Netherlands recently found that you do not need to eat many to get all the health benefits.
The researchers found that eating a handful of nuts or peanuts every day is linked to a lower risk of death from several major diseases.
Piet van den Brandt, a professor of epidemiology at Maastricht University, led the research. He says that eating nuts protects the health of both men and women.
“Nut intake seemed to be protective for both men and women, and that was on total mortality – any cause of death.”
Professor van den Brandt adds that you do not need as many nuts as health experts earlier suggested.
“What we found is that the beneficial effect(s) of nuts and peanuts is already apparent at a lot lower levels of intake than has been suggested before.”