Science for a Healthier Tomorrow
Does Brown Fat Protect Against Diabetes?
A 101,243-patient cohort links brown fat to lower odds of diabetes, and losartan to brown fat — but the metabolism claim comes from mice, not people.
Does a Glucose Monitor Help Without Insulin?
In an open-label 26-week trial, adults with type 2 diabetes not on insulin lowered HbA1c 0.9 percentage points more with a CGM; the device maker paid.
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Is Metabolic Health More Important Than Weight?
A 44-study meta-analysis finds poor metabolic health predicts heart risk at least as strongly as weight category — but with caveats about pooled data.
Do Ultra-Processed Foods Cause Colorectal Cancer?
A 19-year study of 461,682 older US adults found no overall link between ultra-processed food and colorectal cancer — but risk split by food type.
How Many People Have Clinical Obesity?
A 786,557-person analysis finds a new clinical obesity definition counts more older adults than BMI but fewer young children; the authors call it preliminary.
Which Obesity Drugs Work for Teens?
A network meta-analysis of 42 trials found medication plus lifestyle counseling gave the greatest short-term BMI reduction in children and teens.
Can GLP-1 Drugs Slow Aging?
Semaglutide extended median lifespan in female mice, but the human anti-aging case rests on a company preprint and unpublished biomarker data.
Can Vegetarians Build as Much Muscle?
A 12-week trial in 108 adults 55+ found both vegetarian and omnivorous diets built muscle — but non-inferiority wasn’t proven and vegetarian protein was lower.
Does Exercise Beat Weight-Loss Drugs for Your Arteries?
In a prespecified S-LiTE analysis, one year of exercise — not liraglutide alone — tracked with thinner carotid artery walls in 130 adults with obesity.
Can Diet Stop Menopause Weight Gain?
A 12-year study of 38,283 US women tied plant-forward diets to slightly less weight gain at menopause — an association, not proof diet stops it.
Does a Longevity Diet Work in Humans?
In old mice a low-protein diet with added methionine cut fat and frailty without cutting calories but did not extend life; a human diabetes link was unadjusted.
Can a GLP-1 Pill Work as Well as a Diabetes Pill?
In an 810-person phase 3 trial in China, an investigational oral GLP-1 pill lowered HbA1c about as much as the diabetes pill dapagliflozin over 32 weeks.
Does the New “GLP-1 Fiber” Help You Eat Less?
EFSA judged inulin-propionate ester safe to add to food — a safety ruling, not a weight-loss result. The longest 12-month trial found no weight-gain difference.
Does Processing Change How Food Is Metabolized?
A small crossover matched two meals on calories and nutrients. Insulin, energy use and fuel choice still differed — an acute lab signal, not weight or disease.
Can Diet and Exercise Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?
In a 96-person randomized trial, a low-energy diet plus supervised exercise put early type 2 diabetes into remission in 54% versus 4% on usual care.
Does Creatine Build Muscle Without Exercise?
A 12-week trial found creatine raised lean mass by about 1.1 kg (2.4 lb) without exercise — but the estimate was imprecise and exercise status self-selected.
Do Diet Drinks Work as Well as Water for Weight Loss?
A 2-year randomized trial found adults in a weight program who drank non-nutritive-sweetened soft drinks were not worse off than water drinkers.