When that mid-morning slump has you ready to pound that
box of donuts, reach for some nuts instead: Eating walnuts can actually fight your cravings for junk food,
a new study in Diabetes,
Obesity, and Metabolism suggests.
In the study, researchers recruited 10 obese adults for
two, 5-day sessions: During one, the participants drank a smoothie containing
48 grams of walnuts each day. In the other, they drank a nut-free smoothie of
comparable nutritional value.
During the course of the experiment when they drank their
walnut smoothies, the people reported feeling less hungry. No surprise there—previous studies have found that
walnuts are a key snack for satiety.
