The protein boom may be pushing many people to consume far more than their bodies need, and new research suggests that excess could come at a hidden cost. Protein has become one of the food industry’s favorite selling points. It is added to cereal, coffee, snack bars, desserts, and even water, often with the suggestion [...]

Gut bacteria helped some adults tolerate peanuts in a first human trial.

Changing what you eat may begin reshaping how your genes behave in as little as a few weeks, even though your DNA itself remains unchanged. In a randomized clinical trial, researchers found that healthy adults who followed a vegan diet for one month developed changes in chemical markers attached to their DNA. Compared with participants [...]

A study suggests that genetic factors may explain why LDL cholesterol rises sharply in some people who follow a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. Two people can follow the same low-carbohydrate diet and experience very different changes in cholesterol. One may see little difference, while the other develops a sharp increase in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. New [...]

A team of researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Glasgow argues that dietary sugars, not animal foods, may have played the decisive role in the expansion of the human brain over the past 4 million years, as hominin brain size grew nearly fivefold, from about 300 grams in early relatives like […]

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In a perspective paper published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a team of researchers and health experts calls for a ‘paradigm shift’ in how public health agencies address hypertension.

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