**2. Association between Nut Consumption and Cardiometabolic Disorders**

Globally, cardiometabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), coronary heart disease (CHD), coronary artery disease (CAD), and stroke are leading causes of morbidity and mortality [10]. Most of these diseases could be prevented by changing behavioral risk factors such as suboptimal diet [11].

Tree nuts and peanuts, because of their healthy antioxidant biochemical profile, can improve the lipid profile, increase insulin sensitivity and metabolism, and favorably influence other cardiometabolic risk factors [12].
