September 19, 2023 Clinical Research Small study looked at turmeric’s use for the treatment of indigestion. It was helpful with other medications specifically designed to reduce stomach acid secretion. No claims that it should be used as a single agent.
September 18, 2023 Depression If you like coffee then enjoy. There are hundreds of observational studies leading to headline claims trying to justify its consumption on the basis of good or bad health outcomes. Nature of these studies: they are unable to establish causality.
July 7, 2023 Food Science Meta-analysis concludes that your mother was right; Eat your fruits and vegetables to stay as healthy as you can be.
July 4, 2023 Cancer/Oncology WHO adds aspartame to the “possible carcinogen” list as it has for pickled vegetables, aloe vera, Ginkgo Biloba, carpentry and joinery, and common medications like hydrochlorothiazide, progestins, and sulfasalzine, among others.
June 14, 2023 Bariatric Medicine Obesity changes the brain, with ‘no sign of reversibility,’ expert says. Brain responses to nutrients are severely impaired and not reversed by weight loss in humans with obesity: a randomized crossover study
June 12, 2023 Cancer/Oncology To sugar or to not sugar, that is the 50,000 soda-pop-can question. An excellent review from @GidMK that debunks a study’s claim using simple math that sucralose (Splenda) is genotoxic, that is, it can cause cancer.
June 9, 2023 Diabetes Reducing carbohydrates intake at breakfast may help people with diabetes although the three-month study states the effect on A1C levels was not clinically significant.
May 19, 2023 Cardiovascular Diesase Headline provides a definite conclusion when even the study author states that there is an association not causality that Mediterranean diet can improve cardiovascular health. Reverse causality is in play as well.
April 20, 2023 Diabetes Another coffee and tea observational study not able to demonstrate a causal relationship between consumption and harm reduction in a study population with diabetes. Big surprise… not.