Eating more nuts may help older women live longer — especially by lowering their chances of dying from heart disease or stroke over the next 15 years.

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Consumption of nuts and risk of total and cause-specific mortality over 15 years.

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2015 Dec

The study looked at how eating more nuts affects death risk in older women, and found exactly the benefits claimed: fewer deaths from heart disease, stroke, and other causes in women who ate more nuts.

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Consumption of nuts and risk of total and cause-specific mortality over 15 years.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2015.09.006

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