Can Your Blood Plasma Detect What You Eat?
Self-reporting is one of the primary ways that dietitians, medical doctors, and researchers assess people’s diets and their health effects. While useful, self-reporting, [...]
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Can Intermittent Fasting Change Your Brain?
A group of researchers in China put 25 people through 62 days of intermittent energy restriction, IER for short, a fancy term for fasting. They dropped an average of 16.8 [...]
Oral Wegovy for Weight Loss is on the Way
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted Novo Nordisk’s (NOVOb.CO), marketing application for an oral version of its weight-loss drug Wegovy and will decide [...]
What Keeps You Fuller Than Oatmeal?
Some breakfast foods, like croissants, are neither rich in satiating protein nor do they have much fiber, both of which are key to keeping you full longer. Oatmeal is [...]
Is Grip Strength Related to Longevity?
uring a Zoom interview, Maury Purnell, 85, hangs in the air, firmly grasping a trapeze bar, answering questions and smiling, no less. He manages it all in a plaid button-up [...]
Is ‘Microdosing’ Weight Loss Drugs Safe?
Injectable medications originally developed for the treatment of diabetes are also effective for weight loss, and have surged in popularity for this purpose around the [...]
Can the DASH Diet and Salt Reduction Help Your Heart?
In a recent article published in the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, researchers used data collected in the United States to investigate how reducing sodium [...]
Can Redefining Obesity Help Identify Cancer Risk?
Obesity is a serious health problem in the United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data from 2023 show that more than 35%, or more than 1 in 3, [...]
How Healthy Are Plantains and Cassava?
Plantains, cassava and fermented banana drink should be added to global healthy eating guidelines alongside the olive oil, tomatoes and red wine of the Mediterranean diet, [...]
Why Haven’t GLP-1 Pills Taken Off Like Ozempic?
Popular weight-loss and type 2 diabetes drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic are typically taken as self-administered injections—a bearable albeit unpleasant jab to the [...]
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