Does Eating a Handful of Nuts Prevent Major Diseases?

The daily habit may fend off heart disease, cancer, respiratory illness and diabetes.

Nuts, full of good fats and fiber, are health food for the heart. A number of studies show that they can lower risk of heart disease.

But do nuts also help people avoid other diseases, like cancer and diabetes? An international group of researchers, publishing in the journal BMC Medicine, analyzed 29 studies about nuts and health outcomes to find out. In their review, which included data on more than 800,000 people, they found dramatic body-wide benefits for eating nuts.

Excerpted from time.com

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