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
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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
Small Pilot Trial Finds Meals or an App Slowed Weight Regain After People Stopped GLP-1 Drugs
In 39 adults followed for four months, regain after stopping weight-loss injections was about 11 percent of body weight with usual care and about 3.6 percent with tailored meals or the Noom app.
Oct 15, 2026
Nutrition
In a Norwegian Trial, a Very Low-Carb Diet Heavy in Saturated Fat Raised LDL but Not ApoB
Bergen researchers followed 193 adults with obesity for up to two years and found triglycerides fell and HDL rose, but they stress that risk markers are not heart attacks.
Oct 29, 2026
Nutrition
Older Adults Who Ate Four or More Ultra-Processed Servings a Day Had More Depressive Symptoms
A Deakin-led study of 7,220 people aged 70 and over links heavy ultra-processed intake to 12 percent higher depressive symptoms, and an anti-inflammatory diet to 7 percent lower.
Oct 22, 2026
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
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
Nutrition
The Olive Oil Shot Before a Meal: What a New Mouse Study Does and Does Not Show About Blood Sugar
Kyoto researchers found olive oil given before glucose blunted the early blood sugar rise in mice, but the dose was large, no human trial was run, and dietitians see no case for a daily shot.
Oct 26, 2026
Nutrition
Salt and Blood Pressure: The Evidence, and the Gulf's Convenience-Food Problem
WHO sets a 5 gram salt ceiling; the Gulf's average intake runs far above it, driven largely by bread and processed food.
Jan 16, 2025
Nutrition
The Carnivore Diet's Evidence Problem, Explained Plainly
All meat, no plants, and a wave of enthusiastic testimonials online. The actual research base behind the claims is nine small studies with no control group at all.
Apr 5, 2026
Nutrition
Potassium-Rich DASH Diet Did Not Raise Blood Potassium to Unsafe Levels in Adults on Blood Pressure Drugs
A preliminary analysis of 356 Black adults in Boston found 12 weeks of DASH groceries did not raise potassium dangerously, but it excluded advanced kidney disease and is not yet peer reviewed.
Oct 13, 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
The Diabetic Diet Got a Rewrite: What Guidance Says Now
No more banned-food lists. Current diabetes nutrition guidance leans on carbohydrate quality and a simple divided plate, not counting or deprivation lists.
Sep 20, 2024
Nutrition
Why Fast Weight Loss Is Not Evidence That a Diet Is Right
Every restrictive plan produces results in the first month, including plans that contradict each other completely. That is a fact about restriction, not about the theory attached to it.
Jun 30, 2026
