Nuts in the Prevention and Management of Type 2 Diabetes

Stephanie K Nishi; Effie Viguiliouk; Cyril W C Kendall; David J A Jenkins; Frank B Hu; John L Sievenpiper; Alessandro Atzeni; Anoop Misra; Jordi Salas-Salvadó

doi:10.3390/nu15040878

Nuts in the Prevention and Management of Type 2 Diabetes

Nutrients. 2023 Feb 9;15(4):878. doi: 10.3390/nu15040878.

Authors

Stephanie K Nishi^{1

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5}, Effie Viguiliouk⁴, Cyril W C Kendall^{4

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13}, John L Sievenpiper^{4

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10}, Alessandro Atzeni^{1

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3}, Anoop Misra^{14

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16}, Jordi Salas-Salvadó^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Departament de Bioquímica i Biotecnologia, Unitat de Nutrició, 43201 Reus, Spain.
² Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), 43201 Reus, Spain.
³ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y la Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Institute of Health Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Toronto 3D (Diet, Digestive Tract and Disease) Knowledge Synthesis and Clinical Trials Unit, Toronto, ON M5C 2T2, Canada.
⁵ Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON M5C 2T2, Canada.
⁶ Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada.
⁷ College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada.
⁸ Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada.
⁹ Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada.
¹⁰ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON M5B 1T8, Canada.
¹¹ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
¹² Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
¹³ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
¹⁴ Fortis C-DOC Hospital for Diabetes & Allied Sciences, New Delhi 110048, India.
¹⁵ National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation, New Delhi 110016, India.
¹⁶ Diabetes Foundation (India), New Delhi 110070, India.

Abstract

Diabetes is a continuously growing global concern affecting >10% of adults, which may be mitigated by modifiable lifestyle factors. Consumption of nuts and their inclusion in dietary patterns has been associated with a range of beneficial health outcomes. Diabetes guidelines recommend dietary patterns that incorporate nuts; however, specific recommendations related to nuts have been limited. This review considers the epidemiological and clinical evidence to date for the role of nut consumption as a dietary strategy for the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and related complications. Findings suggest nut consumption may have a potential role in the prevention and management of T2D, with mechanistic studies assessing nuts and individual nut-related nutritional constituents supporting this possibility. However, limited definitive evidence is available to date, and future studies are needed to elucidate better the impact of nuts on the prevention and management of T2D.

Keywords: diabetes; glycemic control; insulin resistance; nuts.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Adult
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2*
Diet
Humans
Nuts

Grants and funding

The NUTS 2022 conference was planned by the Rovira i Virgili University, with all the expenses of the organization covered by Barcelo Congresos. Barcelo Congresos SA has received funds from the International Nut & Dried Fruit Council (INC). Researchers did not receive any additional financial support, aside from travel and accommodation, related to their participation in the NUTS 2022 conference. Sponsors did not have any role in selecting or inviting the speakers, nor in the writing or reviewing the proceedings of the conference. S.K.N. is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR, MFE-171207).