Nutrition.
— What you eat, why you eat it, and what the trial data actually says when the marketing is set aside.
6 essays · all unpaywalled
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Ultra-processed food: what the evidence actually says.
Beyond the headlines, what do controlled feeding trials and large cohort studies tell us about UPFs — and which parts of the panic are out ahead of the data?
14 MIN - 09
Fiber: the most under-rated macronutrient in your diet.
Protein gets the marketing budget. Carbs and fats get the arguments. Fiber, the one nutrient with the cleanest dose-response data for almost every chronic disease that matters, gets ignored.
11 MIN - 13
Seed oils: the controversy, the chemistry, and what the evidence actually says.
The seed-oils-are-poison thesis is loud, lucrative, and selectively cited. The defenders sometimes overcorrect. The honest read of the literature is more boring, and more useful, than either side.
11 MIN - 14
Hydration: how much water do you actually need?
The 'eight glasses a day' rule has no clinical origin. What the renal physiology, thermoregulation literature, and NHANES data say about thirst, urine colour, and the real risks of under-drinking.
13 MIN - 18
Intermittent fasting 16:8: what the randomised trials actually show.
Time-restricted eating has been sold as a metabolic miracle. What the controlled human trials say about weight loss, glucose, and the limits of the eating window.
14 MIN