8-9 NWR Handful of walnuts

A daily handful of walnuts – especially in addition to some other healthy foods – may help to offset some of the impacts of the junk-food diets too often consumed by millions of Americans, new research suggests. A study done with mice and just published in the Journal of Nutrition found that consumption of walnuts, a known health-boosting food rich in omega-3 fatty acids, had a particular ability to improve the metabolisms of obese mice that were fed an unhealthy, high fat, high-sugar diet. Dr. Neil Shay, from the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University says that your waistline may not see dramatic changes but in terms of overall health… “ mice eating walnuts had more of the “good” inflammation-reducing fatty acids in their blood at the end of the nine-week study, and much less fat in their livers, than mice that ate the high-fat diet alone.”

 

People who flew Delta Airlines yesterday morning may have found themselves with delays and flight cancellations.

"Delta experienced a computer outage that affected flights scheduled for yesterday morning," the Atlanta-based company tweeted to customers affected by delays. As of 8:20 a.m., Delta Airlines had delayed 10 flights and cancelled two at Portland International Airport. The Port of Portland's website showed the airline had four cancelled flights.