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
Nutrition
The Olive Oil Shot Before a Meal: What a New Mouse Study Does and Does Not Show About Blood Sugar
Kyoto researchers found olive oil given before glucose blunted the early blood sugar rise in mice, but the dose was large, no human trial was run, and dietitians see no case for a daily shot.
Oct 26, 2026
Nutrition
Every Extra 100 Grams of Ultra-Processed Food Daily Tied to Higher Disease Risk in an 8.8 Million-Person Study
A pooled analysis of 51 cohort studies spanning up to 32 years of follow-up found higher ultra-processed food intake linked to greater risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, depression and death, with digestive disease risk up 31 per cent.
Sep 27, 2026
Nutrition
Magnesium: How Much You Need, Where It Comes From, and What a Supplement Can and Cannot Do
Most people can meet their magnesium needs from spinach, nuts, seeds, beans and wholegrains. A supplement helps a few, does little for cramps or sleep in most, and has an upper limit worth respecting.
Sep 21, 2026
Nutrition
Regular Tea Drinkers Had 11 Percent Lower Vascular Disease Risk in a Study of 486,000 Chinese Adults
A China Kadoorie Biobank analysis in the Journal of Internal Medicine links habitual tea to fewer heart and stroke events, with black tea, moderate strength and not-too-hot cups doing best.
Nov 3, 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
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
