{"id":35309,"date":"2016-11-19T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T15:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=35309"},"modified":"2016-11-19T15:14:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T15:14:31","slug":"eat-walnuts-to-stay-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/eat-walnuts-to-stay-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat walnuts to stay happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A handful of walnuts every day can help young men happily tackle life&#8217;s daily stress as this nutrient-dense snack can lead to a happier state-of-mind, suggests a new study.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The researchers found a significant improvement in mood in young, healthy males who consumed walnuts every day for eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In the past, studies on walnuts have shown beneficial effects on many health outcomes like heart disease, diabetes and obesity,&#8221; said researcher Peter Pribis, Professor at University of New Mexico in the US.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-35318\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Glucose-lowering.jpg\" alt=\"Glucose-lowering\" width=\"714\" height=\"595\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Our study was different because we focused on cognition, and in this controlled randomised trial (CRT) we measured mood outcomes in males and females,&#8221; Pribis added.The participants of the study were 64 students between the ages of 18-25.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The participants were asked to eat three slices of banana bread every day for sixteen weeks &#8212; eight weeks of banana bread with walnuts and eight weeks of banana bread without walnuts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nuts were finely ground into the dough so the two banana breads were similar in taste and appearance. While eating banana bread with walnuts the participants consumed half a cup of walnuts daily.The mood of the students was measured at the end of each eight-week period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We used a validated questionnaire called Profiles of Mood States (POMS),&#8221; Pribis said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35316 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bananas-nuts-clean-eating.jpg\" alt=\"bananas-nuts-clean-eating\" width=\"370\" height=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is one of the most widely used and accepted mood scales in studies on cognition. The test has six mood domains: tension, depression, anger, fatigue, vigor, confusion and also provides a Total Mood Disturbance score (TMD),&#8221; Pribis explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The researchers found that consumption of walnuts led to a significant improvement in mood in young, healthy males.&#8221;In non-depressed healthy young males, walnuts seem to have the ability to improve mood,&#8221; the study, published in the journal Nutrients, said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There was a meaningful, 28 per cent improvement of mood in young men,&#8221; Pribis pointed out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are several nutrients in walnuts that could be responsible for the improved mood like alpha-Linolenic acid, vitamin E, folate, polyphenols or melatonin, the researchers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of walnuts every day can help young men happily tackle life&#8217;s daily stress as this nutrient-dense snack can lead to a happier state-of-mind, suggests a new study. The researchers found a significant improvement in mood in young, healthy males who consumed walnuts every day for eight weeks. &#8220;In the past, studies on walnuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,2],"tags":[2952,15770,165,8947,15771,15260],"class_list":["post-35309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gossips","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-diabetes","tag-eat-walnuts","tag-health","tag-heart-disease","tag-stay-happy","tag-study"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/walnauts-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}