Nutrition
Intermittent Fasting: What the Trials Actually Show
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
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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
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
People With Diabetes Are Still Being Told to Avoid Fruit, and the Evidence Points the Other Way
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
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
What Nizam al-Tayyibat Gets Wrong, Item by Item
Banning fish and fruit while encouraging red meat and starch is not a cautious eating plan. Set against the evidence, each exclusion removes something with a measurable protective effect.
Jun 3, 2026
Nutrition
A Mouse Study Says Sweeteners Left Marks Two Generations On, and It Is Being Read Far Too Confidently
47 mice drank water, sucralose or stevia. Their children and grandchildren, who drank only water, showed some of the same changes to gut bacteria and gene activity. That is genuinely interesting and it is not a finding about people.
Sep 1, 2026
Nutrition
Hydration Facts: How Much Water You Actually Need, and Where 'Eight Glasses' Came From
The eight-glasses rule traces to an unreferenced 1945 guess. Here is what evidence-based bodies recommend instead.
Apr 8, 2025
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
How to Judge a Diet Claim Before You Follow It
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
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
