date:Feb 28, 2013
Eating two or more servings of walnuts a week is associated with a 21% and 15% lower risk of incident type 2 diabetes before and after adjusting for body mass index (BMI) respectively, according to a new study published in the Journal of Nutrition.
Walnuts contain the highest antioxidant levels of any nut and are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids and have been shown to improve various cardiometabolic risk factors. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health investigated the association