Almond improves Blood Glucose and Cholesterol

raaman

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Over the past forty years, the number of people with diabetes worldwide has quadrupled and this increase is particularly more in India. In fact, Indians have the highest annual increase in pre-diabetes type 2 diabetes, which calls for lifestyle interventions to help reverse this trend.

When it comes to snack choices, almonds can be an easy and tasty food strategy to follow. A new study has found that almond snacks help improve glucose metabolism among adolescents and other young people with pre-diabetes condition in India.

This randomized controlled clinical trial aims to determine the effect of almond consumption on blood glucose, lipids, insulin and metabolic dysfunction factors, and selective inflammatory markers among adolescents and young adults aged 16 to 25 years living with pre-diabetes.
 
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