Almonds and Diabetes Management

Inclusion Criteria

• •12 subjects with diagnosed T2D for at least 1 year and 12 healthy individuals without T2D will be recruited for the acute almond trial.
• •24 subjects with diagnosed T2D for at least 1 year will be recruited for the chronic almond trial.
• •Subjects from the campus population and nearby communities will be recruited to participate in these trials.
• •Men and women must be willing to comply with the experimental protocol including the restriction of nut consumption:
• •* subjects recruited for the acute almond study must agree not to consume any nuts or nut butters for 1-week prior to and during the 2-week trial
• •* participants in the chronic almond study must agree not to consume nuts or nut butters more than 2 times per week during the 12 week trial.
• •Participants must have a body mass index (BMI) from 20 to 35 kg/m2 and are aged 30 to 70 years.
• •Subjects with T2D may take oral hyperglycemic agents.