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Walnuts may help delay Alzheimer’s disease. Nuts have shown their health benefits over and over and a new study out this week provides just one more reason to eat them. “Researchers at the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities said experiments with Alzheimer’s-susceptible mice found that subjects that consumed walnuts showed significant improvement in their learning skills and memory compared with mice without them in their diet.” Learning and memory weren’t the only beneficiaries. “The study also found improvement in motor skills and reduction in anxiety. The mice in the experiment consumed an amount of walnuts that would be the equivalent for humans of eating about 1 to 1.5 ounces of walnuts a day.” The study comes after findings that walnut extract was helpful in reducing damage caused by brain proteins involved in Alzheimer’s. This study moved on to see whether that translated to whole walnuts.
