If people who are overweight or obese swap about 15% of their daily food calories with macadamia nuts for 8 weeks, it doesn’t seem to change their blood sugar or insulin levels in any noticeable way.

Eating macadamia nuts every day for 8 weeks doesn’t seem to change blood sugar or insulin levels in people who are overweight or obese with belly fat.

Eating macadamia nuts every day — even if it adds about 97 extra calories — doesn’t make you gain weight or body fat if you're overweight and have belly fat, so they can be part of your regular diet without messing up your body composition.

Eating macadamia nuts every day — even if it adds about 97 extra calories — doesn’t make you gain weight or body fat if you're overweight and have belly fat. So, these nuts can be part of your diet without messing up your body shape.

Eating macadamia nuts every day for two months might slightly lower bad cholesterol in people who are overweight or obese — but the change is pretty small and might not make a big difference.

Eating macadamia nuts might slightly lower bad cholesterol in overweight adults, even if they don’t cut back on saturated fat — kind of like other nuts do.