Ladies you may want to add walnuts to your diet as a recent study has found that they can keep age-related health issues at bay. The Brigham and Women's Hospital research suggested that consuming 1-2 servings of walnuts per week was associated with reduced risk of developing impairments in physical function which helps enable older women to maintain independence throughout the aging process. This paper emphasized that overall diet quality rather than individual foods may have a greater impact on reducing risk of physical function impairments. Specifically diet quality traits most associated with reduced rates of incident physical impairment were