[Music] after my video on dates blew my mind showing that even just a few dates can significantly reduceed the duration of Labor during childbirth and improve the progression of Labor when I saw that there were randomized controlled trials showing that penut balls could decrease the length of Labor I didn't bat ey but no this is the peanut ball they were talking about uh but there are some surprising benefits attributed to nuts and randomized control trials like how about a study on the effects of almond consumption on wrinkles where' they even come up with the idea
well population Studies have found that healthy diets are associated with less facial wrinkles like a a meat and junk predominant eating pattern was associated with more wrinkles whereas a fruit predominant pattern was associated with fewer wrinkles in terms of single Foods yellow vegetables and soy appeared protective but wine may make things worse they're thinking is that it might be the antioxidants in healthy foods decreasing the oxidative stress load or the anti-inflammatory benefits or protection from sun damage or improved collagen production or better DNA repair I've got videos on most of those topics the bottom line
is that eating healthier May reduce wrinkling which could actually save lives if people started eating healthier to maintain a more youthful appearance and get all the chronic disease benefits as a happy side effect other studies found the same thing supporting recommendations for more healthy foods like fruits vegetables and nuts here's another study that landed on yellow vegetables and greens as well in this study a high intake of vegetables beans and olive oil appear to be protective against spots of precancerous sun damage whereas a high intake of meat and dairy may make things worse prunes apples
and tea seem particularly good but this is a cross-sectional study meaning just a snapshot in time maybe people who eat more meat are out barbecuing in the Sun or or people who eat more prunes just use more sunblock I mean you can't know for sure if Foods actually affect wrinkling until you put them to the test but we had no such studies until now why study almonds because it was paid for by the Almond Board of course the researchers didn't know who was in the nut group though and who was in the control group when
they were looking at the results the nut group were given 2 ounces of nuts a day like two Palm FS of nuts and the control group was instead given nut-free snacks to eat instead like nut-free granola bars or pretzels before and after they got highres facial photographs to quantify facial wrinkle depth and severity using a computer-based photographic analysis and boom the Almond group had significant L decreased wrinkle severity compared with the control group by the end of the 16-week study the paper concludes our study demonstrates that daily almond consumption May reduce wrinkle severity now they
used a relatively large dose of 2 ounces a day whereas you can get cardioprotective benefits of nuts from even less than a half an ounce so who knows maybe they could have gotten away with using less here's the lowd do nut study they referenced showing a significant drop in LDL cholesterol within 6 weeks eating just a few almonds a day 10 grams is just like eight almonds a day that's the nice thing about healthy foods they just have good side effects so Global disease prevention strategies might benefit from emphasizing that a healthy diet is also
linked to less facial wrinkling and maybe vanity will help us prevent a few heart attacks in the bargain [Music]
