Walnuts, soybean may prevent risk for diabetes  

Washington:
Eating more unsaturated fats like walnuts and soybean in place of
dietary carbohydrate can lowers blood sugar level and improve in the
prevention and management of type-2 diabetes, according to a new
study.

The
study provides evidence for the effects of dietary fats and
carbohydrate on the regulation of glucose and insulin levels and
several other metrics linked to type 2 diabetes.

“Our
findings support preventing and treating these diseases by eating
more fat-rich foods like walnuts, sunflower seeds, soybeans, flax
seeds, fish, and other vegetable oils and spreads, in place of
refined grains, starches, sugars, and animal fats,” said Dariush
Mozaffarian, Researcher, Tufts University in the study published in
the journal PLOS Medicine.

The
researchers performed the first systematic evaluation of all
available evidence from trials to quantify the effects of different
types of dietary fat (saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated)
and carbohydrate on key biological markers of glucose and insulin
control that are linked to development of type 2 diabetes.

The
researchers summarised findings from 102 randomised controlled
trials, involving a total of 4,660 adult participants, which provided
meals that varied in the types and amounts of fat and carbohydrate.

They
then evaluated how such variations in diet affected measures of
metabolic health, including blood sugar, blood insulin, insulin
resistance and sensitivity and ability to produce insulin in response
to blood sugar.

The
researchers found that exchanging dietary carbohydrate or saturated
fat with a diet rich in monounsaturated fat or polyunsaturated fat
had a beneficial effect on key markers of blood glucose control.

“Among
different fats, the most consistent benefits were seen for increasing
polyunsaturated fats, in place of either carbohydrates or saturated
fat,” said Fumiaki Imamura, Researcher, University of Cambridge.

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