Nut Consumption and Mortality

To the Editor: The study by Bao et al. (Nov. 21 issue)¹ documenting the inverse association between nut consumption and total and cause-specific mortality was déjà vu for me. More than 20 years ago, I published a letter questioning whether it was nuts or magnesium that provided protection against the risk of coronary heart disease in the Adventist Health Study.² It is well documented that nuts have a higher magnesium nutrient density than essentially any other food.³ The findings by Bao et al. are similar to those for magnesium intake or serum magnesium level with regard to several cause-specific mortalities. . . .