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Effects of a High Walnut and High Cashew Nut Diet

on Selected Markers of the Metabolic

Syndrome: A Controlled Feeding Trial

High Cashew Intake and its Impact

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2007

Author(s): Janine Mukuddem-Petersen, Johann C. Jerling, Susanna M.
Hanekom and Zelda White

School of Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Science, , and School of Com-
puter, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, North-West University (Potchef-
stroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa

Welma Stonehouse (Oosthuizen), Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human
Health, Massey University (Albany Campus), North Shore, Auckland, New
Zealand

Abstract
We investigated the effects of a high walnut diet and a high unsalted cashew
nut diet on selected markers of the metabolic syndrome. In a randomized, Information: British Journal of
parallel, controlled study design, sixty-four subjects having the metabolic Nutrition , Volume 97 , Issue 6 ,
syndrome (twenty-nine men, thirty-five women) with a mean age of 45 (SD June 2007 , pp. 1144 - 1153
10) years and who met the selection criteria were all fed a 3-week run-in DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/
control diet. Hereafter, participants were grouped according to gender and S0007114507682944[Opens in
age and then randomized into three groups receiving a controlled feeding diet a new window]
including walnuts, or unsalted cashew nuts or no nuts for 8 weeks. Subjects
were required to have lunch at the metabolic ward of the Nutrition Copyright:
Department of the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). Copyright © The Authors 2007

Results: Both the walnut and the unsalted cashew nut intervention diets had
no significant effect on the HDL-cholesterol, TAG, total cholesterol, LDL-cho-
lesterol, serum fructosamine, serum high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, blood
pressure and serum uric acid concentrations when compared to the control
diet. Low baseline LDL-cholesterol concentrations in the cashew nut group
may have masked a possible nut-related benefit. Plasma glucose concentra-
tions increased significantly (P = 0·04) in the cashew nut group compared
to the control group. By contrast, serum fructosamine was unchanged in the
cashew nut group while the control group had significantly increased
(P = 0·04) concentrations of this short-term marker of glycaemic control.
Subjects displayed no improvement in the markers of the metabolic syndrome
after following a walnut diet or a cashew nut diet compared to a control diet
while maintaining body weight.

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