Two studies funded by the Almond Board of California have concluded that the consumption of almonds is beneficial when it comes to controlling blood sugar, as well as preventing pathologies such as glucose intolerance or prediabetes. The difference between both investigations is that one has focused on the short term and the other on the long term.
The two, in any case, have been collected by the website of the television channel originally from Germany DW. The one who has analyzed the impact of the consumption of this nut in the short term was carried out monitoring the results of taking almonds for three days; The other did the same, but in three months.
Another aspect that the two studies share is that a total of 60 people participated in each of them. And everyone had to take 20 grams of dried fruit half an hour before breakfast, lunch and dinner.
A bowl of almonds
In the case of the study that measured this impact in the long term, it recorded results that indicated a reversal of prediabetes at blood sugar levels in 23.3% of the total participants. This figure For researchers, it was a “holy grail” for the world of medicine.as stated DW.
The reason is that Good glycemic control helps prevent the development of diabetes. But that is not the only benefit that they have highlighted about almonds, since the president of the board of the Fortis-C-DOC Center of Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinology (New Delhi), Anoop Misra, has valued their composition nutritional.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.es
