Fighting cardiometabolic disease with pecans

A study examined the benefit of substituting pecans into the diet and the subsequent risk of cardiometabolic disease.

In a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers randomly assigned 138 adult participants at risk of cardiometabolic disease to follow a pecan intervention involving the substitution of typical snacks for unsalted pecans or a usual diet.

After a follow-up of 12 weeks, the researchers found that compared with the participants in the usual diet group, those in the pecan group experienced greater declines in total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides. Further, the participants who substituted pecans into their diets scored higher on Healthy Eating Index-2020.

The findings demonstrated the potential of replacing typical snacks with pecans to improve cholesterol and triglyceride levels without affecting vascular health in this patient population.

Read more: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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