Like several before it, a new study finds that eating a modest amount of nuts every day can significantly reduce our risk of death from any cause. And these include not only a reduced risk of death from heart disease, which has been the most-studied benefit of nuts, but also cancer, stroke, respiratory, and brain diseases. This is excellent news for nut lovers, but the researchers give a word of caution: Don’t completely go nuts, so to speak. There was an upper limit in the study, above which there was no further benefit for eating nuts. And while peanut butter didn’t offer any benefit (sadly), peanuts did, which suggests that although they’re not technically nuts (they’re legumes), they do have a right to continue masquerading as nuts.

The researchers looked at data from over 120,000 Dutch people who have been taking part in the Netherlands Cohort Study since 1986. They tracked the participants’ dietary habits, and health outcomes over a period of 10 years. Included in the analysis were tree nuts, peanuts, and peanut butter. Though peanuts are legumes, they share many nutritional properties of nuts, including monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, antioxidants, and fiber, so are often included in studies like this one.

It turned out that people who regularly ate nuts had a reduced risk of death from any cause – about 23% reduce risk, compared to people who didn’t eat nuts. Read more in Forbes.