Eating more walnuts might help improve blood sugar and 'good' cholesterol in adults with metabolic syndrome, and the more you eat, the greater the benefit — even if studies overall don't show a clear average effect.

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Impact of walnut consumption on cardio metabolic and anthropometric parameters in metabolic syndrome patients: GRADE-assessed systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of data from randomized controlled trials.

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2022 Apr

The study found that while walnuts didn’t improve blood sugar or 'good' cholesterol for everyone on average, the more walnuts people ate, the better these measures got, which supports the idea that dose matters.

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Impact of walnut consumption on cardio metabolic and anthropometric parameters in metabolic syndrome patients: GRADE-assessed systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of data from randomized controlled trials.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2022.106190

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