Eating nuts might add healthy years to your life, but this new nut study hides a revealing detail

I don’t want to discourage anyone from eating nuts. I’ve been telling you about the health benefits of nuts for years.

But the new nut research you might have heard about deserves an asterisk. (And you won’t hear this from the mainstream media either since it makes it less sexy.)

This study got a lot of attention because it finds that a modest daily intake of any type of nut can reduce disease risk. And you might live longer to boot.

That’s an unbeatable deal — an easy, inexpensive, and delicious way to add healthy years to your life.

But there’s a catch. And most of the reports I saw missed this detail.

The study also found that nut eaters tended to eat more fruits and vegetables than people who didn’t eat nuts. They also exercised more.

To really get the full effect from nuts, you can’t just wash them down with a milkshake.

Sources:
“Association of Nut Consumption with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality” New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 369, 11/21/13, nejm.org