Lower Your Risk of Type 2 Diabetes... Eat More Nuts
Thursday June 12, 2008
According to a study published in JAMA, (the Journal of the American Medical Association) in Nov. 2002, eating more nuts and peanut butter can reduce a woman's risk for type 2 diabetes.The Nurses' Health Study is one of the largest studies ever undertaken, involving 83,818 women from 11 states for almost two decades.
The word on nuts and peanut butter from this study? The scientists state, "Our findings suggest potential benefits of higher nut and peanut butter consumption in lowering risk of type 2 diabetes in women. To avoid increasing caloric intake, regular nut consumption can be recommended as a replacement for consumption of refined grain products or red or processed meats."
Read the abstract from JAMA here...
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Nut consumption - 3 to 5 1-oz servings per week - is also associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease such as heart attacks and cardiac death.
-Steve
Reference: Nut consumption and decreased risk of sudden cardiac death in the Physicians’ Health Study. Archives of Internal Medicine, vol. 162 (2002), pp.1382-1387
I have not read the original but this seems like very poor advice. Diabetes is still a disease of carbohydrate intolerance and that should be the primary consideration, not weight loss. Weight loss is good but no diet is any better than those that reduce carbohydrate, and those diets will improve glycemic response and improve cardiovascular health whether you lose weight or not. Lumping together red meat and grains because of caloric content has little scientific sense. People with a glucometer can decide whether this is a good recommendation but many of us find that nuts are one of the easiest things to over-consume and have moderately high carbohydrate.
Richard Feinman
Professor of Biochemistry
SUNY Downstate Medical Center