You’re Not Crazy… Nuts Are Good for Your Heart Researchers say peanuts, walnuts, and tree nuts can reduce your risk of stroke and heart attack. The more you eat, the better. Eating several small servings of nuts every week may lower your risk of heart attack and stroke. That’s the finding of one of the largest studies on nuts to date. Researchers from the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health studied 210,000 people in three large prospective studies with a 32-year follow up. The participants’ nut consumption was assessed with food frequency questionnaires. The researchers said they found a significant association between the consumption of nuts and a lower risk of cardiovascular problems. “People who regularly eat nuts, including peanuts, walnuts, and tree nuts, have a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease or coronary heart disease compared to people who never, or almost never, eat nuts. We found a consistent inverse association between total nut consu
The Rest of the World Is Obsessed with Bidets — Here’s Why Bidets are more affordable than ever and great for your bottom. Everybody poops. But not everybody has a successful wipe. If you feel like your bathroom experience mirrors “The NeverEnding Story,” then it may be time to forgo toilet paper, like some European, Asian, and South American countries do. Enter: The bidet. You may have seen these in photographs from friends visiting European hostels with the caption, “Why is this sink so low?” Or you may have seen them modernized as toilet attachments in Japanese homes or restaurants (77.5 percent of Japanese use them). Bidet (pronounced bi-day) sounds like a fancy French word — and it is — but the mechanics are decidedly mundane. A bidet is basically a shallow toilet that sprays water on one’s genitals. It may sound strange but a bidet is actually a fantastic alternative to wiping. Europe and other parts of the world realized this long ago, so why hasn’t America caug