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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.
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Can Ultra-Processed Food Hurt Your Focus?
Preliminary: more ultra-processed food tracked with slightly lower attention scores and a higher dementia-risk score — a small association, not proof of cause, and no memory link.
Can Keto Help Anorexia Nervosa?
Preliminary: a supervised ketogenic diet was tolerable in 22 adults with anorexia nervosa — a single-arm trial that cannot show it worked.
Does Cutting Processed Foods Improve Health?
A small trial in adults 65+ cut ultra-processed food to about 13% of calories: they ate less, lost about 4 kg, and markers improved — but the cause is unclear.
Does ultra-processed food impact heart health risk? 51 study meta analysis.
A meta-analysis of 51 cohorts links each extra 100 g/day of ultra-processed food to about 14% higher cardiovascular-event risk. What the low certainty rating and the missed hypertension null mean.
Three diets, same weight loss: the keto liver-fat trial, read closely
A randomized trial of provided meals found keto cut liver fat more at matched ~10% weight loss, while muscle insulin sensitivity rose ~50% in all three diets and LDL/ApoB showed no differences.
How to Read Three Numbers in Nutrition News
A plain-language guide to the three statistics in nutrition news: what a confidence interval, a p-value, and an effect size (Cohen's d) do and do not mean.