Energy-Dense Walnuts Tied to Better Diets

Walnuts significantly improved diet quality, endothelial function, and cholesterol without negatively affecting blood pressure or glucose levels in a new study. The walnut diets neither significantly improved or worsened body mass index, percent body fat, percent body water, or visceral fat (P>0.05) when the two arms were compared. But waist circumference improved in the walnut plus dietary counseling group. The walnut diets also had no significant effect on blood pressure or fasting blood glucose. http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/DietNutrition/54869?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2015-11-25&eun=g721819d0r