Nuts help control type 2 diabetes
Eating a handful of walnuts everyday could help control type 2 diabetes according to new research from Australia. Fifty overweight adults with diabetes (who treated their condition without insulin) were given a low-fat diet with or without 30g (nine halves) of walnuts a day for a year. After just three months, the walnut group showed significant improvements in insulin levels. Eating low-fat is good but this study shows that including key foods that deliver the right type of fat – in these case walnuts – is also important.
Tapsell et al., 2009. Long-term effects of increased dietary polyunsaturated fat from walnuts on metabolic parameters in type II diabetes. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 63 (8) 1008-1015.
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Dr. Justine Butler
Justine joined Viva! in 2005 after graduating from Bristol University with a PhD in molecular biology. After working as a campaigner, then researcher and writer, she is now Viva!’s head of research and her work focuses on animals, the environment and health. Justine’s scientific training helps her research and write both in-depth scientific reports, such as White Lies and the Meat Report, as well as easy-to-read factsheets and myth-busting articles for consumer magazines and updates on the latest research. Justine also recently wrote the Vegan for the Planet guide for Viva!’s Vegan Now campaign.
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