Some reported that they did not remember, and a few reported implausible ages which were treated as unknown.
We also repeated analyses excluding participants who reported implausible phone usage patterns or dates.
We also excluded the data of 317 subjects who reported implausible total energy intake (<500 or >7000 kcal/day).
After excluding participants who reported implausible energy consumption (<1000 kcal/day (n=104) or >3000 kcal/day (n=47)), the average dietary quality of the remaining 1573 participants was calculated.
In order to exclude those who reported implausible dietary data, participants in the lowest and highest 1% of the EI/BMR distribution were excluded from the analysis (n=523).
In addition, patients who reported implausible values for total energy intake (<700 or >4200 kcal per day for males; <500 or >3500 kcal per day for females), had insufficient data, or refused to participate, were excluded.
Participants who did not provide or provided incorrect national identification numbers, who reported implausible energy intakes (>3 standard deviations from the natural logarithm-transformed mean), who had a previous diagnosis of cancer (other than nonmelanoma skin cancer) or HF were excluded (n = 1 126).
We excluded 3670 women who had a history of cancer, 1141 women who did not provide information on nut intake, and 11 977 women who did not provide information on anthropometric measures or physical activity, or reported implausible nutritional information (>9 missing food items or estimated daily energy intake <500 kcal or >3500 kcal).
We excluded participants if they reported implausible daily caloric intakes of <500 or ≥3,500 kcal/day for current intake levels (n = 2,920) and <500 or ≥5,000 kcal/day for high school intake levels (n = 1,181), or left ≥10 items blank (n = 225).
We also excluded those who reported an implausible energy intake (±3 s.d. of mean log-transformed energy, n=567).
