Nutrition
Fibre Is the Nutrient Almost Everyone Under-Eats, and Here Is What It Does
Most adults eat about half the fibre they need. The gap matters more than dieters realise, and closing it is not about bran.
May 22, 2024
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7 stories for“dietary fibre benefits”
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
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
Why the Mediterranean Diet Keeps Winning the Evidence Wars
One Spanish randomised trial cut heart attacks and strokes by roughly 30 percent using olive oil and nuts. Here is why that result has held up so well since.
Jun 18, 2024
Nutrition
Added Sugar Versus Intrinsic Sugar: What the Guidance Actually Says
WHO guidance targets free sugars, not all sugar. The distinction changes how a bowl of cereal or a smoothie should be judged.
Sep 10, 2024
Health
The 2026 Guidelines Quietly Removed the Hurdles People Had to Clear Before Getting an Insulin Pump
Continuous monitoring is now recommended for adults with type 2 diabetes who are not on insulin at all, and the prerequisites for starting automated insulin delivery have been deleted rather than relaxed. Both changes are about access.
Aug 15, 2026
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
