Nuts are packed with heart healthy fats, vitamins and minerals. They make for a healthy, filling snack that can curb cravings,lower cholesterol and more. A new study, published in the Journal Nutrition, suggests that including tree nuts in your daily diet could be an easy and inexpensive way to stay slim and fit. Tree nuts include almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts. (Why These Nuts are a Superfood) Although tree nuts contain fat and calories, previous studies have shown that diets enriched with nuts do not increase weight. "Filled with plant protein, dietary fibre, and healthy mono-and polyunsaturated fatty acids, tree nuts are a satiating food that may actually help suppress appetite", said lead study author Carol O`Neil, professor at Louisiana State University Agricultural Centre in the US.
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Maureen Ternus, Executive Director of  the International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research & Education Foundation (INC NREF), said that just 1.5 ounces of nuts per day (about 1/3 cup) can give you many of the important vitamins, minerals and energy you need throughout the day.

The study is published in Nutrition Journal