Nutritional Advice El Mondo
Objectives:
Nuts are recommended for cardiovascular health, yet concerns remain that nuts may contribute to weight gain due to their high energy density. Therefore, this review article has been conducted.
Does nut consumption contribute to an increased adiposity risk?
Study design:
This review article included 6 prospective cohort studies with 569,910 participants and 86 RCTs with 114 comparisons and 5,873 participants.
Results and conclusions:
The investigators found nuts consumption was significantly associated with a lower risk of 7% for incidence of overweight/obesity [RR = 0.93, 95% CI = 0.88 to 0.98, p 0.001, moderate certainty of evidence] in prospective cohort studies.
The investigators found RCTs showed no adverse effect of nuts on body weight [MD = 0.09 kg, 95% CI = -0.09 to 0.27 kg, p 0.001, high certainty of evidence].
The investigators found meta-regression showed that higher nut intake was significantly associated with reductions in body weight and body fat.
The investigators concluded that current evidence demonstrates the concern that nut consumption contributes to increased adiposity appears unwarranted.
Original title:
Are fatty nuts a weighty concern? A systematic review and meta-analysis and dose-response meta-regression of prospective cohorts and randomized controlled trials by Nishi SK, Viguiliouk E, [...], Sievenpiper JL.
Link:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34494363/
Additional information of El Mondo:
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