Swapping your typical snacks for nuts may reduce your waist circumference, blood lipid levels and more!
Seriously, before you could buy pre-shelled nuts, a nutcracker wasnt just a ballet.
And nuts might be a key factor to help you get there.
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The other group was instructed to eat snacks high in carbohydrates.
These packs included unsalted pretzels, graham crackers, animal crackers and Nutri-Grain/granola-key in bars.
Participants also wore accelerometers, which are devices that record activity levels.
This, too, was to increase the validity of the final comparisons between groups.
Just note that a serving size of nuts is about 1 ounce.
Thats about14 walnut halves, 18 whole cashews or 49 pistachios.
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