Just a handful of walnuts a day could be a way to improve your memory, a new report showed. Eating walnuts may improve performance on cognitive function tests, including those for memory, concentration and information processing speed. The study led by Dr. Lenore Arab at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, found that cognitive function was consistently greater in adult participants that consumed walnuts – regardless of age, gender or ethnicity.
This cross-sectional study is the first large representative analysis of walnut intake and cognitive function.
It is also the only study to include all available cognitive data across multiple National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The NHANES draws from a large sampling of the U.S. population, typically ages one to 90 years old.
In this study, participants included adults ages 20-59 as well as 60 and over. Dr. Arab and co-researcher Dr. Alfonso Ang found that study participants with higher walnut consumption performed significantly better on a series of six cognitive tests.
Dr. Arab said: ‘It is exciting to see the strength of the evidence from this analysis across the U.S. population supporting the previous results of animal studies that have shown the neuroprotective benefit from eating walnuts; and it’s a realistic amount – less than a handful per day (13 grams).’.. see more
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