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5 stories tagged "nutrition"

Autoimmune & Inflammation

A near-starvation diet shifted inflammation in gum-disease patients. The trial was tiny, and the diet came in a box.

A 28-patient feasibility trial put severe gum-disease patients on three cycles of a 750-calorie ProLon diet. Inflammation markers trended lower; clinical gum measures weren't reported. The biology question is real; the data is thin.

Nutrition & Food

8,300 Brazilian elders, one saltshaker, and the 80 percent of sodium nobody mentions

A Frontiers in Public Health survey of 8,336 Brazilians over 60 found older men reach for the saltshaker most. Buried in the same paper: the shaker only accounts for 6 to 20 percent of total sodium. The other 70-plus percent already arrived from the factory.

Nutrition & Food

American Doctors Get About 1.2 Hours of Nutrition Training a Year. RFK Jr. Just Found the Lever.

Kennedy got eight organizations across U.S. medical training and 73 medical schools to commit to nutrition in licensing, accreditation, and a 40-hour pledge. The board exam matters; the rest is partly hedging.

Nutrition & Food

The thin trial behind England's next supermarket-layout mandate

A non-randomized trial of 36 English discount stores produced a moment-of-implementation bump in produce sales that lost statistical significance by three months, and a household-purchasing signal that never landed. The authors' immediate call for a national layout mandate is the louder finding.

Nutrition & Food

The supplement aisle has spent twenty years getting older Americans wrong

A May 2026 review by two geriatric researchers, syndicated this week by ScienceDaily, restates what twenty years of trial data have already shown: the supplement aisle is built around vague promises older Americans do not need, while protein, the gap that actually moves aging outcomes, sits in the m