Peanuts lengthen your life? You’d be nuts to believe it | Tom Clarke on Science | Tom Clarke on Science: The research suggests eating as little as 2.5 grams of nuts each day (that’s about 1 nut) makes you less likely to die, and the effect gets stronger until you eat 15 g – about half a handful. But eating more nuts than that does not further decrease your risk of dying.
Nuts contain all sorts of healthy things like vitamins, anti-oxidants and fatty acids.
But if there was some magical life-extending nutrient exclusive to nuts, you might expect to see the life-preserving effect grow as you eat a little bit more than half a handful. In this study, it didn’t.
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