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D.C. — A “Secret Panel” of food-industry insiders handpicked by the Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture illegally influenced the recommendations in the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, argues a lawsuit the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine filed with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia…

Current dietary patterns based on general consumption trends may not fully capture factors influencing arterial stiffness, a subclinical marker of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We aimed to identify data-driven dietary patterns and evaluate their associations with arterial stiffness in a population without known CVD. In this cross-sectional study of 1155 adults, food choices from a 16-item…

Many conditions that family physicians manage relate to diet, but connections between specific dietary intakes and health outcomes are often uncertain.1 Generally, controlled dietary research lacks blinding and has poor adherence. Many observational studies of diets face significant confounders and various exposure outliers that change over time

Researchers published their findings in the journal Nutrition Research – determining that older Australians and Australians from rural and regional areas had diets with significantly higher levels of bitterness than younger Australians and city-dwellers

During the past decade, dietary nitrate has emerged as one of the most extensively investigated nutritional bioactives to support vascular physiology through the nitrate–nitrite–nitric oxide pathway

The challenge of knowing which foods to choose for good health, given constraints such as availability, taste and budget, is real. While blanket categories have sought to simplify decisions for consumers, new evidence points to a need for nuanced interpretation in order to improve the quality of global food environments

D.C. — A low-fat vegan diet lowers the energy density of the foods people eat by roughly 30%, allowing them to eat satisfying amounts of food while taking in fewer calories and losing weight—without deliberately restricting calories—according to new research published in JAMA Network Open

Dietary acid load (DAL) is a factor that predisposes individuals to the development of urolithiasis (UL). A cross-sectional study was conducted including individuals with UL (n = 53). We estimated DAL using the net endogenous acid production (NEAP) (90.6 [68.8–110] mEq/d), potential renal acid load (PRAL) (13 [0.07–20] mEq/d), and net renal acid excretion (NAE) (45 [30–55.3]…

Dietary protein is a key regulator of metabolic health in humans and rodents. Many of the benefits of protein restriction are mediated by reduced intake of dietary branched-chain amino acids (leucine, valine and isoleucine) and restriction of the branched-chain amino acids is sufficient to extend healthspan and lifespan in mice. Here we find that valine…

Diets across age groups vary in both nutritional quality and greenhouse gas emissions, yet their relationship remains poorly understood in the context of population aging and evolving dietary patterns. We evaluated dietary emissions associated with 141 products across 22 age groups in 149 countries from 2000 to 2019, combining age-specific dietary intake from the Global…