Almonds are packed with nutrients that deliver amazing mind and body benefits!

Ready for this? Almonds actually help pare unwanted pounds! According to a study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, women who simply added unsaturated fats like almond butter to their daily diet lost an average of nine pounds!

Almonds are also rich in tyrosine, an amino acid that boosts production of the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine, as well as the energizing hormone norepinephrine.

One more tidbit about this awesome nut— snacking on two or three handfuls of almonds daily reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease by 11 percent, according to recent findings in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.