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Eating macadamia nuts boosts a special healthy fat in your body by about a quarter, but even though it shows up in your blood, it doesn’t seem to improve metabolism in people who are overweight or obese.

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Macadamia nut effects on cardiometabolic risk factors: a randomised trial

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2023

The study shows eating macadamia nuts increases healthy fats in the diet, but it doesn't prove the exact type or amount of fat (palmitoleic acid) increased, or that it showed up in the blood by 26%.

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Macadamia nut effects on cardiometabolic risk factors: a randomised trial

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DOI: 10.1017/jns.2023.39

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Eating macadamia nuts for 15% of your daily calories boosts a healthy fat called palmitoleic acid in your diet and in your blood, showing your body is actually using the good fats from the nuts.

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Eating macadamia nuts might help lower cholesterol more in people who are overweight but not obese, especially if they have less body fat, compared to those with more body fat or obesity.

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Eating macadamia nuts might help lower cholesterol more in people who are overweight but not obese, especially if they have less body fat, compared to those with more body fat or obesity.

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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.

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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.

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