YOUR OPINION

Are nuts fattening?

• Yes
• No
• I don’t know

 

The proceedings of the symposium Health Benefits of Tree Nuts have been recently published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition (bilingual English and Chinese). The INC sponsored this session, organized by the INC Nutrition Research and Education Foundation (INC-NREF), at the 19th International Congress of Nutrition, held in Bangkok, Thailand, 4-9 October 2009.

The proceedings have been published in the Asian Journal of Clinical Nutrition, volume 19, number 1, 2010:

• - Health benefits of nuts in prevention and management of diabetes
  Cyril WC Kendal, Amin Stefahani, Jennifer Truan, Korbua Srichaikul and David JA Jenkins

• - The phytochemical composition and antioxidant actions of tree nuts
  Bradley W Bolling, Diane L McKay and Jeffrey B Blumberg

• - Nuts, inflammation and insulin resistance
  Patricia Casas-Agustench, Mònica Bulló and Jordi Salas-Salvadó

• - Nuts, blood lipids and cardiovascular disease
  Joan Sabaté and Michelle Wien

• - Nuts and healthy body weight maintenance mechanisms
  Richard D Mattes and Mark L Dreher

• - Tree nut consumption improves nutrient intake and diet quality in US adults: an analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2004
  Carol E O’Neil, Debra R Keast, Victor L Fulgoni III and Theresa A Nicklas

The abstracts of the studies are available at www.nutfruit.org, Database: Health and Nutrition.

Copies of the proceeding will be distributed to participants at the World Nut and Dried Fruit Congress, Beijing, May 21-23, 2010.