Chennai: Over the last 40 years, the number of people living with diabetes globally has quadrupled and this upward trajectory is especially steep in India.
In fact, Indians have the highest annual progression to type 2 diabetes from pre-diabetes (about 14-18 per cent), which calls for lifestyle interventions to help reverse this trend.
When it comes to snack choices, almonds may be one easy- and tasty- dietary strategy. A new study showed that almond snacking helped improve glucose metabolism in adolescents and young adults in India with prediabetes.
This randomised controlled clinical trial aimed to determine the effect of almond consumption on
factors of metabolic dysfunction including blood glucose, lipids, insulin, and selected inflammatory markers in adolescents and young adults (aged 16-25 years old) with prediabetes, who resided in Mumbai, India.
The study was a randomised, parallel trial of 275 participants (59 male, 216 female) with impaired glucose metabolism (prediabetes). At the start of the study, participants’ weight, height, and waist and hip circumferences were measured and fasting blood samples were taken.
Participants also underwent a glucose tolerance test and their lipid profiles were assessed.