The body of evidence about nuts and health continues to grow. These local and international research papers, published around May 2022, corroborate decades of research about the importance of a regular handful of nuts in a healthy diet. Beneficial effects of nut consumption on cognitive function among elderly: Findings from a 6-year cohort study. (2022).This … Continue reading New research: May 2022

The body of evidence about nuts and health continues to grow. These local and international research papers, published around April 2022, corroborate decades of research about the importance of a regular handful of nuts in a healthy diet. Nuts and metabolic syndrome: Reducing the burden of metabolic syndrome in menopause. (2022).This review summarises the evidence … Continue reading New research: April 2022

Three in four health professionals (72%) believe Australians should eat nuts daily, and none thought nuts should be limited in the diet, according to a first-of-its-kind Australian study (1). The joint University of Wollongong and University of Otago study, just published in Nutrients, surveyed 204 Australian-based health professionals on their knowledge of the health benefits … Continue reading What do health professionals think of nuts?

The food we eat is one of the key changes we can make to help tackle the complex issue of climate change (1). In their 2022 position statement on healthy and sustainable diets, Dietitians Australia says a population-wide shift is urgently needed (2). This includes a radical rethink of our food systems – from production, … Continue reading Three steps towards healthier, more sustainable eating

The body of evidence about nuts and health continues to grow. These local and international research papers, published around March 2022, corroborate decades of research about the importance of a regular handful of nuts in a healthy diet. Practical, evidence-based approaches to nutritional modifications to reduce atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: An American Society for Preventive Cardiology … Continue reading New research: March 2022

The body of evidence about nuts and health continues to grow. These local and international research papers, published around February 2022, corroborate decades of research about the importance of a regular handful of nuts in a healthy diet. Estimating impact of food choices on life expectancy: A modelling study. (2022).Sustained change from a typical to … Continue reading New research: February 2022

Eating a handful of nuts a day, more legumes and whole grains, and less red and processed meat, could increase life expectancy by more than a decade, according to a major international study (1). The modelling study, just published in the journal PLoS Medicine, calculated for the first time, the impact of food choices on … Continue reading Nuts boost life expectancy

The body of evidence about nuts and health continues to grow. These local and international papers, outlining new nut research published around January 2022, corroborate decades of research about the importance of a regular handful of nuts in a healthy diet. Nut and peanut butter consumption and risk of prostate cancer in the NIH‐AARP diet … Continue reading New nut research: January 2022

The body of evidence about nuts and health continues to grow. These local and international research papers, recently published, corroborate decades of research about the importance of a regular handful of nuts in a healthy diet. Change to a healthy diet in people over 70 years old: The PREDIMED experience. (2021). The PREDIMED randomized trial has … Continue reading New nut research: December 2021

Heart healthy eating is all about ‘the whole package’ of what we eat over a day, a week and a month, says new advice from the American Heart Association (AHA). The AHA’s new ‘2021 Dietary guidance to improve cardiovascular health’, last updated in 2006, has just been published in the journal Circulation (1). What’s new? … Continue reading New heart healthy eating guidance