If you have a quiz coming up with true or false questions--- better eat your walnuts. Andrews University Professor of Nutrition and Wellness Peter Pribis's study on walnuts shows that eating the "superfood" can mildly improve your chances of getting correct answers. The study made it into the British Journal of Nutrition:
Pribis says that acid, an amino acid, is what is helping the brain solve the questions -- it helps your ability to make inferences:
The true or false test was one of many tests done on participants eating walnuts. Two groups ate banana bread each day for eight weeks, one group had ground walnuts in the bread, the other didn't.
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Pribis says that acid, an amino acid, is what is helping the brain solve the questions -- it helps your ability to make inferences:
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The true or false test was one of many tests done on participants eating walnuts. Two groups ate banana bread each day for eight weeks, one group had ground walnuts in the bread, the other didn't.
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