According to a research carried out by a group of researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, it has been unveiled that walnuts are good for health.

Study researchers from the School of Medicine said that consuming modest amount of walnuts is associated with reduced risk of prostate cancer. Senior author of the study Russel Reiter was of the view that they injected human prostate cancer cells into immune-deficient mice.

Some of the mice were fed with the walnut-enriched diet and others were fed with the non-walnut control diet. It was unveiled that three mice out of 16 having the walnut-enriched diet developed the prostate tumors.

On the other hand, 14 out of 32 developed the tumor."We found the results to be stunning because there were so few tumours in animals consuming the walnuts and these tumours grew much more slowly than in the other animals", said Reiter.

Study researchers were of the view that they were stunned by the fact that walnut enriched diet was proving quite effective in reducing the chances of having the cancer.

Co-author of the study, W Elaine Hardman, said that they provided two handfuls a day portion of walnuts.