The Reasons Walnuts Should Be Your Favorite Snack Food

Rich Carroll

We have been touting the health benefits of nuts in general lately, as in a recent survey of US adults it was found that almost 95% of people ages 19-50 did not consume tree nuts of any kind. If people were more aware of the enormous health benefits of this wonderful food, perhaps more people would add it to their diet. Its major negative, that it is high in calories, can be discounted somewhat by the fact that studies have shown that people who add nuts to their diet have not had appreciable gains in weight.

What are the reasons behind that? It seems logical that if you add a high-fat food to your diet, you will gain weight. Nuts are the exception for three reasons: