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
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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
Health
Continuous Glucose Monitors Without Diabetes: Useful Data or Noise?
Over-the-counter glucose monitors reached healthy consumers in 2024, but research suggests their readings may not mean what wearers assume.
Jul 22, 2025
Lifestyle
Dinacharya Said Eat Your Largest Meal at Midday, and Chronobiology Spent the Last Decade Agreeing
The Ayurvedic daily routine and modern circadian science reach several of the same conclusions from completely different premises. Where they converge is worth taking seriously, and where they part company is worth being honest about.
Sep 4, 2026
Health
Muscle Pulls Glucose Out of Your Blood Without Asking Insulin's Permission
Contracting muscle opens a separate doorway for glucose that does not require insulin at all. It explains why a ten minute walk after dinner works, why lifting weights matters more than it is given credit for, and why a hard sprint can send the number up.
Aug 9, 2026
Nutrition
Mediterranean Diet Keeps Winning: What Research Says
The Mediterranean diet isn't trendy, it's proven. New 2025 research shows it cuts diabetes risk by a third when combined with lifestyle changes.
Feb 10, 2025
Health
Intermittent Fasting Works About as Well as Eating Less, Because in the Trials That Is What It Turned Out to Be
Three randomised trials put time-restricted eating against ordinary calorie control or against nothing. The eating window on its own did little. Combined with eating less, it did what eating less does. What that means for anyone considering it.
Sep 6, 2026
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
Recipes
Sabudana Khichdi Is Fasting Food, Which Is Why It Is Made of Almost Nothing but Starch
Tapioca pearls, peanuts, potato and cumin. The dish exists because Hindu fasting rules exclude grains and most spices, and the constraint produced something people now eat on days they are not fasting at all.
Sep 4, 2026
Nutrition
What Happens to Your Gut When You Remove Fruit and Vegetables
Fibre is not a supplement you can skip and make up later. Take it out of a diet and the effects run from the bowel to blood glucose to long-term cardiovascular risk.
Jun 24, 2026
Health
How to Hold Yourself Together When the Region Is on Fire
One in five people who live through conflict develops a mental health condition. Most of the useful advice is unglamorous: fix sleep, ration news, keep routine, and treat connection as a necessity rather than a nicety.
Aug 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
