Nuts

Cohorts consistently associate regular nut intake with lower cardiovascular mortality, and feeding trials show reliable reductions in LDL cholesterol. The counter-intuitive part is that a high-calorie food does not show the weight gain you would predict, probably because some fat is not absorbed and nuts displace other snacks. Much of the trial literature is funded by nut marketing boards, which is worth knowing without dismissing it.

Reviewed 2026-09-20

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How this list was built

We searched Europe PMC for English-language papers published since 2012 whose title contains “nut consumption” or “almond” or “walnut” or “pistachio”, kept meta-analyses, systematic reviews, trials and observational studies, because a diet or exposure like this cannot be randomised for long and its outcome evidence lives in cohorts, then ranked them by study design first, then recency and citations. Retracted papers are removed.

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