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Cocoa Flavanols Benefits: Yay for Heart, No for Brain?

Nutrition research in recent decades has moved with great interest towards investigating the health effects of non-nutritive compounds. Such compounds are biologically active, but are...

Posted in Macronutrients Research, Nutrition Research

PUFA Oxidation: Just Not What You Think…

The stream of nonsense related to the health effects of polyunsaturated fats [PUFA] is neverending. One of the most common claims about the supposed negative...

Posted in Macronutrients Science, Metabolic Health

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Vitamin E & NAFLD: The Benefits for Liver Disease

Much of the nutritional focus for the presence, and removal, of fat in the liver emphasises total energy intake and macronutrient composition. Indeed, the primary...

Posted in Metabolic Health, Micronutrient Nutrition

What the Diabetes Prevention Studies Showed Us

The core pathophysiology of type-2 diabetes [T2D] is the progressive decline, and eventual termination of function, in the capacity of the beta-cells [β-cells] of the...

Posted in Metabolic Health, Nutrition Research

Fatty Liver Diet: Protect the Liver With Seed Oils

We definitely know that energy balance is the primary determinant of the accumulation of fat in the liver, which is why calorie control is a...

Posted in Metabolic Health, Nutrition Research, Nutrition Science

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Diet & Gastric Cancer: Does Salt Increase Stomach Cancer Risk?

In relation to the relationship between hypertension and CVD, the data is unequivocal: hypertension profoundly increases risk for CVD events and mortality, and this relationship...

Posted in Micronutrient Nutrition, Nutrition & Cancer

Weight Loss Research: Brain MRI Scans, Food Cravings, and Weight Regulation

Two systems are commonly referred to in the neurobiology of eating and obesity: the "homeostatic" and "hedonic" systems. Homeostatic systems regulate eating relative to energy...

Posted in Nutrition & Brain Health, Nutrition Research

Zinc & Brain Health: Mechanisms and Depression

In the early 1960s, a series of case reports related zinc deficiency to stunted growth and sexual maturation in both male and female adolescents. It...

Posted in Micronutrient Nutrition, Nutrition & Brain Health

Diet & Heart Disease: How Nuts and Unsaturated Fats Lower Risk

This historic focus of nutrition science was on single nutrients and the potential interaction of isolated nutrients. For example, the replacement of saturated fat with unsaturated...

Posted in Macronutrients Science, Metabolic Health, Nutrition & Metabolism

Ultra Processed Foods: How Protein Affects Energy Intake

According to the NOVA classification system, ultra-processed foods [UPF] are defined as: “formulations of ingredients, mostly of exclusive industrial use, typically created by a series...

Posted in Macronutrients Science, Metabolic Health, Nutrition & Metabolism

Poverty and Obesity: Ayn Rand vs. Nutrition Science

Came across a series of postulations about the relationship between poverty and obesity, and thought they are worth addressing from the perspective of evidence. These...

Posted in Controversies in Nutrition, Nutrition Policy, Nutrition Research, Research Methodology in Nutrition

Lipoprotein(a), Causality, and Checkmate on Low-Carb Cholesterol Denialism

I think this must be checkmate. I’ve noticed that in the low-carb/cholesterol-denialism (yes, they are synonymous) community, much attention is now being given to high...

Posted in Controversies in Nutrition, Nutrition Research, Research Methodology in Nutrition