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51 stories for“low carb”

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

Watermelon Has a High Glycaemic Index and It Does Not Matter, Which Tells You What Is Wrong With the Number

Glycaemic index measures the quality of a carbohydrate in a standardised portion nobody eats. Glycaemic load multiplies it by the amount actually on the plate, and the two frequently disagree.

Aug 14, 2026

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

Sugar-Free Does Not Mean Carbohydrate-Free, and the Biscuit Knows That Even If You Do Not

A product can be free of sugar, full of refined flour, sweetened with something that still raises glucose, and carry more fat and calories than the version it replaced. Regulators in Europe eventually stopped allowing a diabetic food category altogether.

Aug 19, 2026

Nutrition

Brown Bread Is Usually White Bread With Colouring, and the Label Is Allowed to Say So Quietly

Wholemeal, wholegrain, multigrain, brown, granary and wheat all sound like the same promise. Only one of them reliably means the whole grain is in there, and the difference shows up in your glucose two hours later.

Aug 9, 2026

Nutrition

You Do Not Have to Give Up Rice. You Do Have to Change Which One, How Much, and What Is On It

Telling a household built around rice to stop eating rice is advice that gets nodded at and ignored. Four changes to the same plate do more for post-meal glucose than an instruction nobody will follow.

Aug 8, 2026

Nutrition

Eating the Same Meal in a Different Order Cut Post-Meal Glucose by More Than a Third

Identical food, identical calories, identical macronutrients. The only variable was what went in the mouth first, and glucose at sixty minutes fell by 36.7 per cent. It is the cheapest intervention in diabetes nutrition.

Aug 18, 2026

Nutrition

The Low FODMAP Diet Is a Diagnostic Tool, Not a Way of Eating

It has strong evidence behind it for irritable bowel syndrome, and it is routinely misused. The elimination phase is meant to last weeks, and the part people skip is the part that matters.

Aug 7, 2026

Nutrition

A Diet Trial Was Stopped Early Because the Control Group Was Doing Measurably Worse

PREDIMED tested a Mediterranean diet with added olive oil or nuts against low-fat advice. Diabetes incidence was 6.9 per cent with olive oil against 8.8 per cent on the low-fat arm, and the follow-up trial did considerably better.

Aug 15, 2026

Nutrition

Somebody Actually Measured What Five Varieties of Dates Do to Blood Sugar, in the UAE, in People With Diabetes

Dates are sweet, so the assumption is that people with diabetes should avoid them. A study of Fara'd, Lulu, Bo ma'an, Dabbas and Khalas found low glycaemic indices and no significant glucose excursions in the diabetic group.

Aug 12, 2026

Nutrition

Nizam al-Tayyibat: What the Diet Actually Tells You to Eat

Chicken, eggs, fish, legumes and most vegetables are out. Rice, potatoes, red meat and certain sugars are in. Set out plainly, the food lists are stranger than the slogans suggest.

May 13, 2026

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

They Changed the Light and the Algae Started Making the Vitamin B12 a Human Can Actually Use

Ordinary spirulina is full of a B12 lookalike the body cannot use, which is why it has never been the answer for anyone avoiding animal food. Adjusting the light it grows under produced 1.64 micrograms of the active form per 100 grams.

Aug 31, 2026

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

Nutrition

A Protein Bar Is Ultra-Processed. New Trial Data Says That May Not Be the Point

Protein-enriched processed foods produced higher satiety hormones and lower calorie intake than normal-protein versions of the same products. It complicates a classification a lot of advice now rests on.

Aug 17, 2026

Nutrition

Ramadan Fasting and Metabolic Health: What Research Shows

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

Coeliac, Wheat Allergy or Gluten Sensitivity: They Are Not the Same Thing

Three different conditions get flattened into one phrase. One is autoimmune, one is an allergy and one is a diagnosis of exclusion, and the testing order matters more than most people realise.

Aug 8, 2026

Nutrition

The WHO Advised Against Sweeteners, and Then Made One Exception That Nobody Reported

The 2023 guideline told people not to use non-sugar sweeteners for weight control. It explicitly does not apply to people who already have diabetes, which is precisely the group that read the headline and threw them out.

Aug 11, 2026

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

The Gluten-Free Flour Guide: What Each One Does and What It Cannot Do

Rice flour is not a replacement for wheat, and no single flour is. Here is what each alternative actually contributes, which combinations work, and why psyllium and xanthan are not interchangeable.

Aug 11, 2026