If you have type 2 diabetes, eating tahini every day for six weeks might lower your bad cholesterol, raise your good cholesterol, and help protect your heart.

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The study gave people with type 2 diabetes a tablespoon of tahini every day for six weeks and found their 'good' cholesterol went up, which matches part of the claim. It didn’t say anything about 'total' cholesterol, so we can’t be sure about that part.

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