Nutrition | ReportWire publishes the latest breaking U.S. and world news, trending topics and developing stories from around globe.
Is potassium chloride a win-win by decreasing sodium intake and increasing potassium intake? Of all the terrible things about our diets, high dietary sodium intake—high salt intake—is the…
Read more Are Potassium Chloride Salt Substitutes Worth Trying? | NutritionFacts.orgA staggering 99.99% of Americans fail to get the minimum recommended potassium intake (despite it being perhaps only half of our natural intake) and stay below the recommended…
Read more The Mineral Intake Recommendations Only 1 in 6,000 U.S. Adults Meet | NutritionFacts.orgTo receive a monthly digest of updates from Diet and Health Today, just enter your email address below. We send out emails on last day of the month…
Read more Mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid with Dr Clare Craig – Diet and Health TodayCranberries and pumpkin seeds are put to the test for benign prostatic hypertrophy. More than 50% of men in their 50s and at least 70% of men over…
Read more Do Cranberries and Pumpkin Seeds Help an Enlarged Prostate? | NutritionFacts.orgPublished July 15, 2026 11:43AM Tour de France riders are prime athletes who eat like a pack of wild animals. The world’s best cyclists eat anywhere between 5,000…
Read more The Wild 8,000-Calorie Diet That Powers Tour de France RidersBefore Insulin, There Was Oatmeal Before the discovery of insulin, the lives of many people with diabetes were saved or prolonged by Carl von Noorden’s oatmeal diet. As…
Read more The Science Behind Oatmeal and Diabetes | NutritionFacts.orgExecutive summary * This note was inspired by last week’s review of a gamechanger drug (daraxonrasib) for pancreatic cancer. Daraxonrasib was tested against chemotherapy. Median survival times were…
Read more Chemotherapy – the trials that have and haven’t been done – Diet and Health TodayLactucin, the hypnotic component of lettuce, is put to the test in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of lettuce seeds. “There is a perception that time spent asleep…
Read more A Surprising Vegetable Approach to Insomnia | NutritionFacts.orgIf you’re going to have something unhealthy, is there anything you can eat with it to help mitigate the damage it may cause? If you compare the artery…
Read more Protect Your Arteries from Saturated Fat with These Foods | NutritionFacts.orgPublished July 6, 2026 01:07PM Key Takeaways: Fibermaxxing is a nutrition trend on social media that refers to increasing your fiber intake for better overall health. The purported…
Read more No, ‘Fibermaxxing’ Will Not Improve Your FitnessExecutive summary * The results of a trial of a drug for pancreatic cancer (daraxonrasib) have just been published. The drug was compared with chemotherapy “of the investigator’s…
Read more Game changer pancreatic cancer drug – Diet and Health TodayThere is a window of time in which sufficient physical activity can help mediate some of the damage caused by eating an unhealthy meal. I’ve previously discussed studies…
Read more Can Exercise Counteract a High-Fat Meal? | NutritionFacts.orgWhat happens within hours of eating a high-fat meal? We are only as old as our arteries. What can we do to preserve arterial function as we age?…
Read more How a Single Meal Can Cripple Your Arteries and Lungs | NutritionFacts.orgIn summary * An article published in The Lancet in June 2026 led to the headline “Young women now have ‘close to zero’ risk of cervical cancer death…
Read more Has the HPV vaccine reduced cervical cancer deaths to zero in young women? – Diet and Health TodayPublished June 26, 2026 12:03PM Here’s a subplot to watch for in the upcoming Tour de France. A company called From Lab to Field, or FLF, emerged from…
Read more Why One Tour de France Team Secretly Bought Up a New Type of Energy FuelThe Squatty Potty is put to the test. Previously, I’ve talked about the potential efficacy of prunes and dried figs to keep us regular. What influence does body…
Read more What Is the Best Poop Position? | NutritionFacts.orgWhat happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and fiber content in the first randomized controlled trial? In the United States, “junk food” is often…
Read more Can Ultra-Processed Foods Be Fixed by Tweaking Their Nutrients? | NutritionFacts.orgExecutive summary * This is the second of a two-part note reviewing the classic Ference et al “consensus statement on LDL and ASCVD“, which was published in 2017.…
Read more Does LDL cause ASCVD? Part 2 – Diet and Health TodayWhat was the secret to the public health community’s triumph when past attempts to regulate the food industry failed? There are three broad approaches to mediating the ruin…
Read more How the Fight to Ban Trans Fat Was Won | NutritionFacts.orgAdding a healthy option can actually drive people to make even worse choices, thanks to a mind-blowing glitch of human psychology. In 2017, and to much fanfare, menu…
Read more Why Healthy Fast-Food Menu Options Can Backfire | NutritionFacts.org
