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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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

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

The fibre comes from the stem of a flax plant that is left to rot in a field. It is stronger wet than dry, it moves heat away from the skin faster than cotton, and it will never lie flat. A guide to buying it well.
Sep 6, 2026

Fruit contains sugar, so the advice writes itself and it is wrong. The relevant distinction is not sweet versus not sweet. It is whether the sugar is still inside a structure that has to be dismantled before it can be absorbed.
Aug 13, 2026

Full grain, top grain, corrected, split, genuine, bonded and vegan describe seven different materials, some of them barely related. What each one is, how it will age, and how to tell them apart in the shop.
Sep 6, 2026

Heat, sweat, hard water and relentless sun age a wardrobe faster than wear does. Most of the damage is preventable, and almost all of it comes down to washing habits rather than fabric choice.
Aug 12, 2026

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

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

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

Peptide is a chemical category, not a claim. The two versions most people actually buy are the ones with the least regulation and, oddly, the best safety record. Here is what the trials support and what physics gets in the way of.
Aug 20, 2026

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

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

Seven checks that need no science background and would have flagged nizam al-tayyibat in about ten minutes. The next system will be different in content and identical in shape.
Jul 29, 2026

Front-of-pack claims like 'low fat' or 'natural' are not lies, but they are not the whole story. Here is what to check instead.
Feb 14, 2024
