Attention, this American study on the importance of walnuts in the diet was funded by the  California Walnut Commission , which financed it. But beware: leading the study was one of the most upright experts on obesity and diabetes in the United States, Dr. David Katz , whose articles on nutrition, health risks and being overweight often appear in leading American newspapers. In short, he is handsome and good. And, on the study he conducted, he specified that the client only financed the study, without influencing the results. Results that promote nuts in the diet, despite their caloric content, about 600/650 calories per 100 g, depending on the variety.

Katz and colleagues would in fact have discovered that those who ate walnuts in their daily diet had more ease in getting sated and eating less in general, and a greater, natural predisposition to eat more natural and less industrial or artificial food. In short, walnuts would help us feel full and satisfied and not indulge in junk food.

But the most surprising thing is that the benefits of walnuts in the diet were not matched by any adverse effects, for example the participants, who were monitored for six months in which they ate walnuts, and another six months in which they did without, did not. weight in the first six months.
How can this be explained? According to experts, walnuts help regulate the sense of satiety, so those who eat them regularly tend to eat fewer manufactured and industrial foods, and in this way compensate for the calories of these seeds (more than nuts are actually seeds).
Doctor Katz’s advice is this: instead of making sacrifices at the table, just help yourself with a little movement and smaller portions, but without eliminating foods that, despite being caloric, have many health benefits, and help us to follow a healthy diet.