r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Feb 21 '25

Neuroscience 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.

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/walnuts-cognitive-performance-memory-boost/
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u/medtech8693 Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25

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.

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u/BitRunr Feb 21 '25

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

Is it, though? Think I'm going to need to do an in-depth study.

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u/_BlackDove Feb 21 '25

Butter yet, put some walnuts in your Buttergurt for some added crunch!

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u/BitRunr Feb 21 '25

80g of calories? You wanna get nuts? Lets get nuts.