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10/20/2026

The most careful low-fat versus low-carb comparison we have is DIETFITS, published in JAMA in 2018.

Gardner and colleagues randomized 609 adults to a healthy low-fat or a healthy low-carbohydrate diet for twelve months, with real dietitian support in both arms.

At twelve months the low-fat group had lost 5.3 kg and the low-carb group 6.0 kg. The difference between them was 0.7 kg, with a confidence interval that included zero.

Twelve months, six hundred people, and the diet you pick was not the variable that mattered.

10/17/2026

This blog used to run a headline that said "Avocado Eaters Live Healthier Lives." The study underneath it could not support that sentence, and a later randomized trial of 1,008 people missed its primary endpoint.

So here is what a half avocado actually is: about 114 calories, 6.65 g of monounsaturated fat, 4.6 g of fiber and 345 mg of potassium.

That is a very good food. It does not need the headline.

10/15/2026

An energy drink is a caffeine delivery system with sugar, taurine and B vitamins attached.

The caffeine is the part that does something, and in most cans it lands in the same range as a large coffee. Everything else on the front of the can is there to make the caffeine feel like nutrition.

That is not an argument against caffeine. It is an argument for knowing what you are paying for, and for reading the sugar line before the B vitamin panel.

10/13/2026

The seven-minute workout was never a research finding.

Klika and Jordan's 2013 article appeared in ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal, a practitioner magazine. It proposed a 12-exercise bodyweight circuit and summarised other people's interval research. It was not a trial of itself.

Somebody did test it. A 2017 controlled study had 29 adults do the seven-minute workout daily for six weeks against 29 controls.

The honest summary: it is better than nothing, it is not equivalent to a training program, and the reason to do it is that you will actually do it.

10/10/2026

Apple pectin has real cholesterol data behind it, and the doses are larger than any supplement gives you.

In crossover trials in mildly high-cholesterol adults, 15 g a day of pectin was given with food for four weeks. A follow-up arm at 6 g a day found LDL 6 to 7% lower with high-ester, high-molecular-weight citrus pectin.

Six grams. That is most of a scoop of greens powder on its own, before anything else goes in.

So when pectin appears on an ingredient list at 200 mg, it is there for the list. Ours included.

10/08/2026

We used to publish a list of eight "high-risk" GMO crops, and we implied that the risk was to the person eating them. That was wrong and we have taken it down.

The list came from the Non-GMO Project, a certification program. In its own definition, a high-risk input is one where a genetically modified version is widespread in the supply chain, so an ingredient from it is likely to contain GE material unless the chain is segregated and tested.

That is a sourcing likelihood, not a health finding. Two completely different claims, and the label rarely separates them.

10/06/2026

Roasted mushroom quinoa risotto. Serves four, no arborio, no thirty minutes of stirring.

Roast the mushrooms with olive oil for 10 to 15 minutes until they go dark and concentrated, then fold them through cooked quinoa. The roasting is the whole trick. Mushrooms that have not been roasted are just wet.

It is the first of five plant-forward recipes we put together that do not read like health food.

Which one should we cook and photograph next?

10/03/2026

Chia does not cause weight loss. The two best-controlled studies gave overweight adults 25 to 50 grams a day for ten to twelve weeks and found no change in body weight or body composition against placebo.

What chia does have is a genuinely unusual profile: very high fiber, a lot of plant omega-3, more calcium than you would guess.

And one safety note almost no marketing mentions. In 2014 gastroenterologists reported a case of esophageal impaction after a man swallowed a tablespoon of dry chia seeds and then drank a glass of water. Chia absorbs many times its weight. Hydrate it before you swallow it, not after.

10/01/2026

Sucralose is not sugar with something removed. It is sugar with three chlorine atoms substituted onto the molecule, which is what makes it roughly 600 times sweeter and largely resistant to digestion.

FDA approved it for 15 specific food categories in 1998 and as a general-purpose sweetener in 1999. Human pharmacokinetic work published in 2000 followed radiolabeled sucralose through the digestive tract, so the basic question of what happens to it has an actual answer.

We do not use it. That is a formulation choice, not a safety verdict, and it is worth being precise about the difference.

09/29/2026

The refrigerator is where a lot of produce quietly gets worse.

Tomatoes are chilling-sensitive below 10C, which is warmer than any home fridge. Past about six to eight days at 5C they lose texture and flavour and do not get it back.

Potatoes have the opposite problem. Store them too cold and their starch converts to reducing sugars, which is what drives acrylamide formation when you later fry or roast them. Industry guidance keeps potato storage above about 43F for exactly this reason.

Meanwhile the fridge itself should be at 40F or below, and most people have never checked.

What is in your fridge that should not be?

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