Diet and food.
Weekly semaglutide lowered the risk of heart attack, stroke or death from heart disease by 20% in adults with overweight or obesity who already had cardiovascular disease but not diabetes. The trial randomized 17,604 people and followed them for more… Read More →
Eating the most ultra-processed food tracked with about a 50% higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease than eating the least, in a research review that pooled evidence covering almost 10 million people. Death from any cause ran 21% higher… Read More →
Milk and yogurt looked protective against colorectal cancer until the researchers accounted for calcium, and then the dairy signal faded. What stayed was calcium itself: each additional 300 milligrams a day, roughly the amount in a large glass of milk,… Read More →
Roughly half the world carries Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that settles into the stomach lining and usually causes no symptoms at all. It is also the leading known cause of stomach cancer. So one question has sat there for decades:… Read More →
The label on a diet mattered less than what was actually on the plate. In an analysis of nearly 200,000 U.S. adults, the healthier versions of both low-carbohydrate and low-fat eating, the versions built around plant-based foods and whole grains,… Read More →
For decades the standing advice to people with pouches in the colon was a list of foods to skip: nuts, seeds, popcorn. A 2025 study of nearly 30,000 U.S. women put a different question. Does the overall shape of a… Read More →
The “Portfolio diet“ is closer to a shopping list than a regimen: nuts, beans and other plant proteins, oats and barley, plant sterols, and plant-based oils. Among nearly 15,000 U.S. adults followed for about two decades, the people whose everyday… Read More →
Matching the nutrition on paper did not make the two diets equal. Both menus in this trial hit the same national healthy-eating targets for fat, sugar, salt and fiber. One was built mostly from minimally processed food, the other mostly… Read More →
Swapping a small daily amount of butter for plant oils tracked with roughly 17% lower risk of dying during the study period, in a group of more than 220,000 adults followed for up to three decades. The oils were ordinary… Read More →
