Nutrition
Low-Carb vs Low-Fat: What Decades of Trials Converged On
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
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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
Nutrition
A Diet Trial Was Stopped Early Because the Control Group Was Doing Measurably Worse
PREDIMED tested a Mediterranean diet with added olive oil or nuts against low-fat advice. Diabetes incidence was 6.9 per cent with olive oil against 8.8 per cent on the low-fat arm, and the follow-up trial did considerably better.
Aug 15, 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
Latest Trends
Egypt Banned His Content. Can You Ban a Diet From the Internet?
The Supreme Council for Media Regulation ordered a blanket block on his audio, video and writing. The system kept spreading anyway, which raises a harder question than the ban answers.
Jun 8, 2026
Nutrition
Sugar-Free Does Not Mean Carbohydrate-Free, and the Biscuit Knows That Even If You Do Not
A product can be free of sugar, full of refined flour, sweetened with something that still raises glucose, and carry more fat and calories than the version it replaced. Regulators in Europe eventually stopped allowing a diabetic food category altogether.
Aug 19, 2026
Health
Turmeric Supplements Solved the Absorption Problem, and That Is Exactly Why They Damage Livers
Curcumin is barely absorbed, so manufacturers add piperine, which can raise bioavailability twentyfold. Liver injury reports have followed the formulations that work best, which is not a coincidence.
Sep 4, 2026
Health
The Same Word Is on Your Serum, Your Collagen Powder and the Vial Someone Is Selling on Telegram
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
Health
Cold Showers and Ice Baths: A Dutch Trial Found Fewer Sick Days, a New Review Found Inflammation. Both Are Right
Three thousand Dutch adults who ended their showers cold took fewer sick days. A 2025 review of eleven trials found stress fell twelve hours after a plunge and inflammation rose. What is known, what is marketing, and why the first minute can kill.
Sep 6, 2026
Health
Gestational Diabetes Usually Ends at Delivery. What It Told You About Your Future Does Not
Pregnancy is an accidental stress test of the pancreas, and gestational diabetes is a failed one. The glucose normalises after birth, the elevated lifetime risk does not, and the follow-up appointment that would catch it is missed constantly.
Jul 31, 2026
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
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
