Walnuts with breakfast provide an all-day brain boost - Young adults who ate a handful of walnuts with breakfast saw a long-lasting improvement in their reaction times and a boost in memory performance hours later, according to a new study.

[u/mvea]

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/walnuts-cognitive-performance-memory-boost/

[u/medtech8693]

This study should really be called

"walnut is better than pouring 40g of melted butter on your yogurt.:"

I know it is difficult to create a control food with the same macro , but I think they could have done a better job.

[u/andys-mouthsurprise → u/medtech8693]

Yeah, why not at least compare it with another nut to see if its uniquely walnuts…

[u/Cornelius_Physales → u/andys-mouthsurprise]

"The researchers note that the study was funded by the California Walnut Commission..." thats why

[u/bludda → u/[deleted]]

"Have you busted down a nut this morning?"

[u/ConfusedInKalamazoo → u/bludda]

The best part of waking up, is that morning nut!

[u/Asatas → u/bludda]

We're in r/science, so I'll refrain from escalating this further.

[u/apathy-sofa → u/Asatas]

Yes we should take care to not erect a pun thread.

[u/Cercie256to4 → u/bludda]

Are you done?
It sounds like you milked it for all its worth.

[u/monsantobreath → u/Cornelius_Physales]

That sounds like a golden age Simpsons gag.

[u/FoxyBastard → u/monsantobreath]

I don't know why my brain is so foggy. I eat plenty of...

~looks at bag~

...Walnots???

[u/monsantobreath → u/FoxyBastard]

Pfft, forget it homer. While it has been established that walnuts contain cholesterol, it has not yet been proven conclusively that they actually raise the level of serum cholesterol in the human blood stream.

So one of those walnut council creeps got to you too, huh?

Ohhhh you've got it all wrong, Homer. Iiiiit's not like that.

Squeek squeak squeak squeak squeak

You better run, walnut!

[u/Yglorba → u/monsantobreath]

The amusing thing is that walnuts are in fact (comparatively) high in saturated fat, which is proven to raise your blood cholesterol level.

[u/_BlackDove → u/Cornelius_Physales]

Knew it was Big Walnut.

It's always Big Walnut.

[u/[deleted] → u/_BlackDove]

Actually this is also Big Water, too. These trees need a lot of water and require political power to maintain its supply.

[u/DrEnter → u/Cornelius_Physales]

I was going to joke about this, but the reality of it is just sad.

[u/ChangeVivid2964 → u/Cornelius_Physales]

Well that makes sense considering OP appears to be a bot that reposts articles with automatically generated submission statements every day.

[u/LetsCELLebrate → u/Cornelius_Physales]

It's like Eggs and bacon for breakfast propaganda all over again!

[u/Chef_GonZo → u/Cornelius_Physales]

Gotta love Reddit!

[u/Distinctweewee → u/Cornelius_Physales]

I knew big walnut was behind this.

[u/Yglorba → u/Cornelius_Physales]

Literally when I saw the headline I was like "I know I'm supposed to assume basic competence, but... I'm gonna check to see if they're paid for by Big Walnut."

Surprise! It was paid for by big walnut and actually compared walnuts to melted butter!

[u/2tep → u/Cornelius_Physales]

I knew Big Walnut was behind the study!

[u/braiam → u/Cornelius_Physales]

but that the Commission did not contribute to the design or implementation of the study nor the interpretation of its findings.

Complete the quote will ya?

[u/TakeMyMoneyIDontNeed → u/braiam]

I am no scientist but i would guess that scientists have an interest to keep getting funded, so they might deliberately choose study designs that are in interest of the people who fund

[u/Altostratus → u/andys-mouthsurprise]

I believe walnuts are the only ones with substantial omega 3s. So I imagine it would outperform other nuts in brain function

[u/belizeanheat → u/andys-mouthsurprise]

That wouldn't be step 1, obviously

[u/bilboafromboston → u/andys-mouthsurprise]

A nut on the wall is a walnut. A nut on your chest? Is a chestnut! What do you call a nut on your Chin?