The research team studied the number of nuts eaten by 803 adults belonging to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The average was 16 grams/day among the large consumers and 5 grams/day among the least amateurs. "Our results showed that a serving of nuts (about 28 grams) a week was significantly associated with a 7% lower risk of suffering metabolic syndrome," says the lead author of the research, Karen Jaceldo-Siegl, who believes that Doubling this consumption could potentially reduce the risk of metabolic syndrome by 14%.
Metabolic syndrome is a set of risk factors associated with death, double the risk of cardiovascular disease and five times more likely to suffer from type 2 diabetes. The presence of three of the following five factors results in a diagnosis of metabolic syndrome: abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, low HDL (good) cholesterol, high blood pressure, and hyperglycemia.
The researchers also tested the effect of nuts on obesity. "We found that large consumers of nuts had a significantly lower prevalence of obesity compared to those who consumed less," says Dr. Jaceldo-Siegl.
This study confirms the benefits of the intake of nuts, which already advanced previous research. Last December, the prestigious magazine "The New England Journal of Medicine" (NEJM), echoed the largest study to date, more than 120,000 people, which claimed that people who eat nuts daily had a 20 percent less likely to die from any cause in a period of 30 years, than those who did not consume nuts.
Also, almost a year ago, another study, this time Spanish, published in the same journal, concluded that the Mediterranean diet supplemented with virgin olive oil or nuts such as walnuts, hazelnuts and almonds, is more effective than low-calorie diets. fats of all kinds recommended preventing cardiovascular pathologies.
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