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20 stories for“restrictive diet research”
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
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
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
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
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
Sydney researchers followed 6,537 school students for years. Fruit tracked with fewer symptoms and sugary drinks with more, but the authors warn this does not prove cause.
Oct 21, 2026
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
Millions of people did not follow this system because they are foolish. Three things about it genuinely work, and understanding them explains the reach better than mockery does.
May 29, 2026
Chrononutrition research links late eating to worse metabolic outcomes, but the field is younger and messier than headlines suggest.
Sep 25, 2025
A draft the agency opened for comment this week sets sugar, salt and fat criteria plus a flag for flavours, colours and sweeteners, giving governments one yardstick for regulating packaged food.
Nov 6, 2026
Losing the ability to digest lactose in adulthood is the human default rather than a disorder. It is also a dose problem, which is why total avoidance is usually the wrong response.
Aug 8, 2026
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
The eight-glasses rule traces to an unreferenced 1945 guess. Here is what evidence-based bodies recommend instead.
Apr 8, 2025
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
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
