Working paper

What nut?

How much remaining life a US adult gains by eating nuts every day, by age, sex and amount; how much the next grams add given what they already eat; and whether the kind of nut matters once price counts. For a 40-year-old man who eats none, 15 grams a day adds 6 to 22 days through the LDL pathway alone and 724 if the cohort association is causal; shrinking the association by how far nutrition trials and cohorts have disagreed gives 266 to 782. The evidence cannot rank the tree nuts, and macadamias cost 6 times as much per gram as peanuts. This page embeds revision 2 of the manuscript.

Revision 2 · 2026-09-24 · Max Ghenis