Nuts as sources of MUFAs have also been inserted in diets aiming to improve not only lipid profile but also insulin sensitivity, but in healthy, type 2 diabetes mellitus patients [37], and our own results in obese adolescents, nuts-enriched diets did not influence glucose homeostasis and CRP, an acute-phase protein, associated to atherosclerosis, metabolic disorders and CV disease [38]. Here, INS is linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus.