"If someone says I should eat fruits,vegetables, whole grains,fish,nuts, and avoid processed foods, sugary beverages, and foods with trans fats or high in salt, that's actually much simpler, I think,than chasing all of these numbers."
VOA: standard.2010.03.25
The women were told to eat the soy nuts throughout the day -- some at breakfast, some at lunch, some at dinner and some before going to bed.
Severino had built up a mass of knowledge on where to find water, which nuts to eat and where to find them and how to avoid predators, the BBC's Brazil correspondent Tom Gibb reports.
The other was told to eat 30 grams of nuts (walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts) every day. (The participants were given the olive oil and nuts.) The control group was told to follow a low-fat diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, bread, pasta and fish.