Nuts for your health

Nuts - specifically almonds - have gotten a lot of good press over the past few years as being good for our health. This latest report from the British Journal of Nutrition really caught my eye. Researchers found women who ate 344 calories worth of almonds (slightly more than 2 ounces) every day for 10-week straight weeks did not gain weight during that period. there are two schools of thought, here - 1 - that almonds don't contain as many calories as first thought and 2 - the fiber in almonds appears to block some of the fat they contain and that eating almonds often curbed the hunger of study participants and reduced their total number of calories consumed.
So, if you like nuts and are not allergic to them .. a handful a day may help keep the doctor away.