Science for a Healthier Tomorrow
Do Sugar Substitutes Speed Brain Aging?
A Brazilian cohort tied higher sweetener intake to slightly faster cognitive decline, but not at 60 and over and not in complete-case analysis.
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Does Obesity in Your 20s Raise Cancer Risk?
In 6.3 million Korean adults aged 20 to 39, class II obesity was linked to 2.62% ten-year cancer incidence versus 1.84% at normal weight.
Can Emotional Skills Stop Teen Weight Regain?
Adding emotion-regulation skills to family-based teen weight treatment gave no extra loss during treatment but less regain a year later, a small effect.
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.
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.
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Semaglutide extended median lifespan in female mice, but the human anti-aging case rests on a company preprint and unpublished biomarker data.
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.