Should we go nuts about nuts?

BMC Medicine

David Faeh¹  Sabine Rohrmann¹ 

[1]Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001, Zurich, Switzerland

关键词: Prevention;    Nuts;    Mortality;    Health benefits;   

Others  :  856957
DOI  :  10.1186/1741-7015-11-165

 received in 2013-06-11, accepted in 2013-06-17,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Since the beginning of the 1990s, increasing evidence supports beneficial effects of nut consumption on health. A new analysis of the Spanish PREDIMED trial, published in BMC Medicine, has expanded our knowledge. The study showed that individuals eating nuts more than three times per week died less often from cardiovascular disease and cancer than non-consumers. The study also adds an important finding that previous epidemiological studies could not provide: a protective effect on premature mortality was only seen in the intervention group in which nut consumption increased during the 4.8 years of follow-up, not in the intervention group with additional olive oil consumption or in the control group. Nut consumption actually decreased during follow-up in the latter two groups. Questions remain to be answered on the quantity of nuts to be consumed for health benefits, on possible mechanisms of action, and on whether some types of nuts should be favored.

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【 授权许可】

   
2013 Rohrmann and Faeh; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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