Pre-diabetes helped by almonds for breakfast

The study found that including whole almonds in the breakfast meal significantly increased satiety and decreased blood glucose concentrations throughout the day compared to the control breakfast meal of orange juice and Cream of Wheat.The Almond Board of California distributed a press release on this study in July, adding data to a string of studies related to prediabetes and type-2 diabetes published in late 2010 and 2011.Three of these studies were almond specific (Mori and Mattes, Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism; Wien, Journal of the American College of Nutrition; Cohen, Metabolism), and one, funded by The International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research & Education Foundation, was focused on tree nuts. Notably, all of these studies provided data to support the inclusion of almonds or mixed nuts in the diet for those aiming to improve blood glucose concentrations or measures of insulin sensitivity.