date:Apr 22, 2013
t in rats. On the other hand, saturated fat and trans fat are known to increase therisk for type 2 diabetes.
Data on incident type 2 diabetes and walnut consumption used in the study came from the Nurses HealthStudy (NHS) which involved 58,063 women aged 52 to 77 years and NHS II which involved 78,893women aged 35 to 52 years who did not have diabetes, cardiovascular disease or cancer at the start of thestudies.
Walnutconsumption was estimated based on dietarydata collected from participants e