Nuts instead of carbs may aid diabetes control Nuts are
recommended as replacements for less healthy snacks. Tue, Jul 12
2011 at 10:34 PM NEW YORK - Replacing that daily muffin with a
handful or two of nuts may help people with diabetes better
control their blood sugar and cholesterol levels, according to a
study. When people with type 2 diabetes replaced some of their
usual carbohydrates with about a half-cup of mixed nuts each
day, their blood sugar and "bad" cholesterol levels dipped
slightly over three months, researchers wrote in the journal
Diabetes Care. By contrast, no such improvements were seen among
people who swapped their normal carbs for a daily whole-wheat
muffin. While the findings don't mean that nuts are the key to
diabetes control, they can be part of a healthy diet, said Cyril
Kendall of the University of Toronto in Canada, one of the
researchers involved. "We should be focusing on overall diet and
lifestyle," Kendall told Reuters Health. "They (nuts) have a lot
of fat, but we now realize