Soybean, walnuts useful to prevent or manage diabetes
According to a new study, eating more unsaturated fats like walnuts and soybean instead of dietary carbohydrate can lower blood sugar level and improve in the prevention and management of type-2 diabetes.
The study provides evidence for the effects of dietary fats and carbohydrate on the regulation of glucose and insulin levels.
‘Our findings support preventing and treating these diseases by eating more fat-rich foods like walnuts, sunflower seeds, soybeans, flaxseed, fish, and other vegetable oils and spreads, in place of refined grains, starches, sugars, and animal fats,’ said Dariush Mozaffarian, Researcher, Tufts University in the study published in the journal PLOS Medicine.
The researchers summarised findings from 102 randomised controlled trials, involving a total of 4,660 adult participants, which provided meals that varied in the types and amounts of fat and carbohydrate.
Evaluation was done to see how such variations in diet affected measures of metabolic health, including blood sugar, blood insulin, insulin resistance and sensitivity and ability to produce insulin in response to blood sugar.
It was found by the researchers that exchanging dietary carbohydrate or saturated fat with a diet rich in monounsaturated fat or polyunsaturated fat had a beneficial effect on key markers of blood glucose control.
A researcher of University of Cambridge, Fumiaki Imamura said, ‘Among different fats, the most consistent benefits were seen for increasing polyunsaturated fats, in place of either carbohydrates or saturated fat.’
Intake of foods as mentioned above should be taken in large amounts if someone is diabetic or has a family history of diabetes as it will help to either prevent or manage diabetes better.
