Diabetes is a horrible disease and any way to prevent it is going to be a good thing. Well, it looks like a recent study might have just given the world another way to stop diabetes. A recent study showed that the consumption of walnuts will help reduce the chances of a person developing type 2 diabetes.
THE OFFICIAL STUDY ON WALNUTS HELPING AGAINST DIABETES
The lead author for this study was David Katz, an MD at Yale University, and he stated that they tested 31 men and 81 women in the age group of 25-75 who all were at risk for type 2 diabetes. Katz said that every day they had half of the patients eat walnuts every day for 180 days and the others did not partake it eating the walnuts. Katz stated that after the test was done the reported level of bad cholesterol in the patients who consumed walnuts every day had lowered and their blood vessel function was improved. Katz explained that the walnuts have a unique nutritional level which gives them advantages that other nuts do not have. He also went on to state that this was one of the few times that they have done an isolation test with only one nut. He also said that after the 180 day period ended, they waited 12 weeks and the participants who did not eat the nuts would now eat the nuts.
ARE WALNUTS THE CURE FOR DIABETES?
This is really an eye-opening test as this will give people who are at risk for type 2 diabetes a legitimate solution to help prevent it. However, this test was on people who were at risk and was not on people who actually had type 2 diabetes. This means that another test would have to be done with people who actually have type 2 diabetes. Who knows, the people who did the study might just end up doing that in the future. There is only one way to answer the question of if walnuts are the cure, and that is to test it.
