A daily handful of walnuts could help people combat stress, a new study reveals. Undergraduates who ate two ounces of walnuts a day for 16 weeks experienced an improvement in their mental health.
They reported feeling less stressed out by their studies, less affected by depression symptoms and saw an improvement in their quality of sleep. The randomised 16-week clinical trial studied 60 randomly selected university students aged 18 to 35.
Half were put in the treatment group and the other were put in the control group. The treatment group ate around 56 grams of walnuts each day, while the control group avoided eating any type of nut or fatty fish.
