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A PETA-Tied Doctors Group Is Suing to Kill RFK Jr.'s New Food Pyramid
The Physicians Committee says a secret, industry-tied panel redirected the 2025-2030 dietary guidelines. The group crying capture spent years inside PETA's funding orbit.
Nutrition & FoodThousands of Genes, 20 Volunteers, No Control Group: The Viral Orange Juice Study
The juice came from a citrus-growers' group, the study had no comparison drink, and 'thousands of genes' rests on 20 people, arriving the same summer the FDA loosened what counts as orange juice.
Nutrition & FoodFor Forty Years They Said Skim the Fat. This Trial Fed People Full-Fat Dairy and the Cholesterol Held.
In a 74-adult trial, the group assigned three servings of full-fat dairy a day for twelve weeks held steady on weight, body fat, cholesterol and insulin resistance, and their blood pressure improved, against advice the guidelines have pushed since 1980.
Nutrition & FoodThe Study Telling You Not to Bother Cutting Sweet Foods Was Co-Funded by the Soda and Sweetener Industry
The Sweet Tooth Trial found no reason to reduce sweet-tasting foods. Its private funders include the soda industry's trade group and the International Sweeteners Association.
Nutrition & FoodCancer Drugs Starve Tumors of Arginine. A Rockefeller Lab Says the Immune System May Need It to See Them.
Some cancer therapies deliberately strip arginine from the body to starve tumors. Rockefeller researchers found that in mice the same depletion can hide tumors, flu, and SARS-CoV-2 from the immune system.
Nutrition & FoodThey Doubled the Recommended Protein This Year. 350 Studies Say That's Backwards for Sedentary Adults.
Federal guidance now tells you to eat nearly twice the protein it used to. A University of Wisconsin review of more than 350 studies argues that for people who don't train hard, the extra may be speeding up the aging they're trying to outrun.
Nutrition & FoodA Microwave Can Fry a Potato That Soaks Up Less Oil: That Isn't the Same as a Healthier Fry
University of Illinois engineers made French fries that hold less oil by frying them from the inside. Nobody ran a taste test, nobody measured the acrylamide, and the pitch was aimed at food manufacturers.
Nutrition & FoodNo One Guards the Toddler Food Aisle: 81 Percent of Its Foods Are Ultra-Processed
Parents assume the baby aisle is vetted. It isn't. No US rule makes toddler food meet a nutrient standard, and an Austin audit of 2,783 products marketed for 6-to-36-month-olds found 81 percent ultra-processed and nearly half failing a WHO benchmark.
Nutrition & FoodThe NIH Weighed Every Meal to a Tenth of a Gram. Four AI Calorie Apps Undercounted by up to 345.
In a locked NIH metabolic kitchen where every ingredient was weighed to 0.1 grams, MyFitnessPal, Lose It!, CalAI, and Appediet each read a plate and undercounted it by a quarter to a third, missing the fat most of all.
Nutrition & FoodA Daily Scoop of Chicory Fiber Eased Knee Arthritis, and It Moved the Same Gut Hormone as Ozempic
Twenty grams of chicory fiber a day matched a physiotherapy app for knee arthritis pain, and only one person in the fiber group quit. The hormone it nudged is the one Ozempic is built to imitate.
Nutrition & FoodPepsi Paid $1.95 Billion for Poppi, in a Category That Averages as Much Sugar as Fiber
UNC researchers read the labels on 108 prebiotic sodas and found roughly 5 grams of fiber, 5 grams of sugar, and, in most cans, a non-nutritive sweetener. Poppi agreed to an $8.9 million settlement over its gut-health claims; months later Pepsi paid $1.95 billion for it.
Nutrition & FoodThe Fruit Juice Sold to Parents as the Healthy Choice Tracks With Higher Blood Pressure 25 Years Later
One daily glass of orange juice tracked with 20 percent higher blood pressure risk. The whole fruit tracked with nothing.
Nutrition & FoodThe FDA Revoked Two Petroleum Dyes That Industry Abandoned Before Most Americans Were Born
Orange B was last certified in 1978. Citrus Red No. 2 has painted Florida oranges since 1959. The six petroleum dyes actually in the food supply remain on a voluntary timeline no manufacturer has publicly signed.
Nutrition & FoodThe AHA Says Coffee Is Safe to Five Cups a Day. The Energy Shot's Problem Isn't the Caffeine.
Up to 400 mg a day, roughly three to five cups of regular black coffee, is generally safe for most adults and may be linked to lower cardiovascular risk. The concentrated shot in the gym-bag can is a different animal, and the reason isn't the caffeine.
Nutrition & FoodIn the Lab, Coffee Flipped an Anti-Aging Switch. The Caffeine Barely Did.
Stephen Safe's lab reported that coffee's polyphenols, more than its caffeine, switch on a cellular stress-defense receptor. Every experiment ran in a dish, and the anti-aging headline traveled a great deal further than the data.
Nutrition & FoodScientists Measured the Salt in 39 Takeaways. Nearly Half Had More Than the Label Claimed.
Chemists at the University of Reading ran 39 takeaway dishes through a mass spectrometer. Almost half the labeled ones held more salt than the menu admitted, and one pasta dish carried nearly two days' worth.
Nutrition & FoodFor Forty Years, Margarine Was the 'Healthy' Choice. The Chemistry Was Never on Its Side.
The spread your doctor pushed for decades delivered trans fats, then got rebuilt with a modified fat that raised fasting glucose 22 percent in one trial. Butter, the supposed villain, turned out roughly neutral for your heart.
Nutrition & FoodThey Call It Aging. Sometimes It's a Vitamin Your Doctor Forgot to Check.
New Cornell research explains how B12 deficiency starves muscle of energy, and why the standard test your doctor orders can call the problem aging.
Nutrition & FoodYour Kombucha Is Only as Good as the Tea You Brewed It From
A new five-tea kombucha study finds the antioxidant punch depends almost entirely on the tea you start with, with green and oolong on top and the label never telling you.
Nutrition & FoodSummer Sun Won't Save You: A Vitamin D Study Funded by the People Who Sell the Spray
A Newcastle screening study found vitamin D deficiency persists through summer in older and ethnic-minority adults in northern Britain. The funder sells the fix.
Nutrition & FoodThe Protein Numbers on the Government Charts Were Never Meant to Help You Thrive
A new Frontiers in Nutrition perspective argues official protein and exercise guidelines were built to prevent deficiency, not to maximize healthspan, and that older adults in particular need far more.
Nutrition & FoodYour Five-a-Day Isn't Enough Flavanols, Says the Company That Sells Them by the Capsule
A new study says following dietary guidelines won't get you enough flavanols for heart protection. Two of its authors work for the company that sells flavanols in a capsule.
Nutrition & FoodWHO Tripled the Foodborne Death Toll. The Food Didn't Get Deadlier.
WHO's new estimate says unsafe food kills 1.5 million people a year, more than triple its 2015 figure, even as it admits the burden has fallen. The jump is an accounting change, not an epidemic.
Nutrition & FoodA Cheap Amino Acid Pulled Mice Back From a Cytokine Storm. The Twist Is Which Organ Did the Saving.
A Salk Institute mouse study found that dietary methionine cut deaths from severe inflammation by boosting the kidneys' ability to flush pro-inflammatory cytokines into urine, without blunting the immune response to infection.