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Studies from recent Ramadan seasons tie dawn-to-dusk fasting to real metabolic gains, but the benefits depend heavily on what happens after iftar each night.

Apr 20, 2025

Nutrition

Tirzepatide Switched On Calorie-Burning Brown Fat in Obese Mice, Independent of Its Appetite-Suppressing Effect

A pair-feeding study found tirzepatide, the drug in Zepbound and Mounjaro, activated thermogenic markers in brown fat and improved glucose tolerance in obese mice even when food intake was matched to untreated animals.

Sep 29, 2026

Nutrition

Meal Timing and Late-Night Eating: What Circadian Nutrition Research Actually Shows

Chrononutrition research links late eating to worse metabolic outcomes, but the field is younger and messier than headlines suggest.

Sep 25, 2025

Nutrition

Matched for Calories and Macronutrients, an Ultra-Processed Meal Still Drew a Bigger Insulin Response in a Small Trial

A Virginia Tech trial of 57 adults found less carbohydrate burning, more insulin and different reward-region activity after an ultra-processed meal. It was a single meal in young, healthy people.

Oct 9, 2026

Nutrition

Fruit and Vegetables Beat Usual Care for Kidney Disease Acidosis in a 10-Year Trial, Researchers Report

In a 108-patient trial followed for ten years, the produce arm had fewer hospital stays and dialysis starts than usual care. The finding is a post hoc analysis shown at a meeting.

Oct 23, 2026

Nutrition

Every Extra 100 Grams of Ultra-Processed Food Daily Tied to Higher Disease Risk in an 8.8 Million-Person Study

A pooled analysis of 51 cohort studies spanning up to 32 years of follow-up found higher ultra-processed food intake linked to greater risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, depression and death, with digestive disease risk up 31 per cent.

Sep 27, 2026

Nutrition

Low-Carb vs Low-Fat: What Decades of Trials Converged On

The biggest head-to-head diet trial ever run found near-identical weight loss. The real variable turned out to be the person, not the macro.

Nov 18, 2024

Nutrition

Psyllium Husk Is the Dullest Thing in the Supplement Aisle and Almost the Only One That Works

It has an authorised FDA health claim, which almost no supplement does, and meta-analyses behind it for cholesterol, blood glucose and constipation. One gel-forming property explains all three, and so does the way it goes wrong.

Aug 20, 2026

Nutrition

Intermittent Fasting: What the Trials Actually Show

A major Cochrane review of nearly 2,000 people found intermittent fasting barely beats ordinary dieting. Here is what the data really supports.

Mar 10, 2026

Nutrition

The Mice Kept Eating Less and Put the Weight Back On Anyway. That Is the Interesting Part.

A Yale study found semaglutide switches the brain's hunger neurons on rather than off, and that those neurons are required for fat loss to last. Remove them and the mice ate just as little and regained the weight within fifteen days.

Aug 25, 2026

Nutrition

Ultra-Processed Food: What the Research Actually Shows

One rigorous NIH trial proved ultra-processed diets cause overeating. A UK parliamentary report says the classification behind it is too blunt.

Jun 2, 2026

Results

Ramadan Fasting and Metabolic Health: What Research Shows

Tirzepatide Switched On Calorie-Burning Brown Fat in Obese Mice, Independent of Its Appetite-Suppressing Effect

Meal Timing and Late-Night Eating: What Circadian Nutrition Research Actually Shows

Matched for Calories and Macronutrients, an Ultra-Processed Meal Still Drew a Bigger Insulin Response in a Small Trial

Fruit and Vegetables Beat Usual Care for Kidney Disease Acidosis in a 10-Year Trial, Researchers Report

Every Extra 100 Grams of Ultra-Processed Food Daily Tied to Higher Disease Risk in an 8.8 Million-Person Study

Low-Carb vs Low-Fat: What Decades of Trials Converged On

Psyllium Husk Is the Dullest Thing in the Supplement Aisle and Almost the Only One That Works

Intermittent Fasting: What the Trials Actually Show

The Mice Kept Eating Less and Put the Weight Back On Anyway. That Is the Interesting Part.

Ultra-Processed Food: What the Research Actually Shows

Results

Ramadan Fasting and Metabolic Health: What Research Shows

Tirzepatide Switched On Calorie-Burning Brown Fat in Obese Mice, Independent of Its Appetite-Suppressing Effect

Meal Timing and Late-Night Eating: What Circadian Nutrition Research Actually Shows

Matched for Calories and Macronutrients, an Ultra-Processed Meal Still Drew a Bigger Insulin Response in a Small Trial

Fruit and Vegetables Beat Usual Care for Kidney Disease Acidosis in a 10-Year Trial, Researchers Report

Every Extra 100 Grams of Ultra-Processed Food Daily Tied to Higher Disease Risk in an 8.8 Million-Person Study

Low-Carb vs Low-Fat: What Decades of Trials Converged On

Psyllium Husk Is the Dullest Thing in the Supplement Aisle and Almost the Only One That Works

Intermittent Fasting: What the Trials Actually Show

The Mice Kept Eating Less and Put the Weight Back On Anyway. That Is the Interesting Part.

Ultra-Processed Food: What the Research Actually Shows