Hacker News with Generative AI: Diet

Why is the American diet so deadly? (newyorker.com)
Food scientists are investigating a possible cause of the obesity epidemic which wasn’t named until the twenty-first century: ultra-processed foods.

Food, Health, Diet, Obesity, Food Science

79 points by johnkpaul 11 days ago | 184 comments

Effect of Indo-Mediterranean diet versus calorie-restricted diet in children (nlm.nih.gov)
Dietary interventions and increased physical activity are the cornerstones for management of the paediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Though, no specific diet has been proven superior, Indo-Mediterranean diet (IMD) has shown promise in adult literature. Thus, we aimed to compare the effect of IMD and a standard calorie-restricted diet (CRD) in Indian overweight children and adolescents with biopsy-proven NAFLD.

Health, Diet, Children, NAFLD, Research

12 points by wslh 26 days ago | 0 comments

Ozempic Killed Diet and Exercise (theatlantic.com)
Doctors might be slow to admit it, but Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs are making dieting and exercise obsolete.

Health, Pharmaceuticals, Diet, Exercise

7 points by bookofjoe 39 days ago | 6 comments

Difference in Gastrointestinal Cancer Risk and Mortality by Dietary Patterns (academic.oup.com)
Several studies have demonstrated that dietary patterns identified by a posteriori and hybrid methods are associated with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer risk and mortality. These studies applied different methods for analyzing dietary data and reported inconsistent findings.

Gastrointestinal Cancer, Diet, Research, Mortality

21 points by gnabgib 40 days ago | 30 comments

Melons and Melancholy: "Eating and Being" illuminates the dynamics of dietetics (lareviewofbooks.org)
WHAT IS GOUT that we are mindful of it? An extraordinarily painful condition, as some of us know from personal experience, gout can feel like your nerves are seeking sweet release through your skin. I had my first attack when I was 28 years old, cycled 20–50 miles a week, ate a mostly vegetarian diet, and rarely drank. A sudden pain in the large joint of my right big toe led me to the doctor.

Health, Diet, Writing, Food

13 points by crescit_eundo 43 days ago | 0 comments

Does veganism have an ultra-processing problem? (bbc.com)
For most people living in industrialised societies, it's difficult to avoid ultra-processed foods altogether.

Veganism, Food, Health, Diet

52 points by belter 98 days ago | 103 comments

Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why (nature.com)
Cutting calorie intake can lead to a leaner body — and a longer life, an effect often chalked up to the weight loss and metabolic changes caused by consuming less food.

Health, Longevity, Diet, Animal Studies, Science

8 points by pseudolus 100 days ago | 0 comments

Harvard medical student, ate 720 eggs in a month, cholesterol levels dropped (nypost.com)
This eggs-pert wasn’t yolk-ing around.

Health, Nutrition, Cholesterol, Diet, Medical Research

10 points by ivewonyoung 114 days ago | 2 comments

Science Says Everything You Know about Food, Diet and Drugs Is Wrong (newsweek.com)
Science can't provide definitive answers.

Science, Nutrition, Health, Diet, Drugs

3 points by paulpauper 115 days ago | 0 comments

Metabolism and diet linked to root of bipolar depression (theguardian.com)
Illness could be treated as a physical, rather than mood, disorder, according to scientists in Edinburgh

Mental Health, Bipolar Disorder, Science, Diet, Metabolism

8 points by rippeltippel 119 days ago | 2 comments

Does a "Clean Fast" Matter? (ginstephens.com)

Health, Diet, Nutrition

4 points by opisthenar84 119 days ago | 1 comments

Does eating a higher carb diet make you more full? (examine.com)
A study compared real-life high-carb diet versus a high-fat diet and found that a high-carb diet kept you more full (satiated).

Nutrition, Diet, Science, Health

9 points by paulpauper 130 days ago | 6 comments

NHS soup and shake diet can beat type 2 diabetes (bbc.com)

Health, Diet, Diabetes, UK

8 points by nabla9 165 days ago | 11 comments

Eating Processed Red Meat Linked to Increased Dementia Risk (nytimes.com)

Health, Diet, Dementia, Red Meat

8 points by signa11 169 days ago | 26 comments

Diet impacts metabolic disease via gut microbiota alterations (sciencedirect.com)

Diet, Health, Gut Microbiota, Metabolism, Disease

19 points by mlsys_djw 171 days ago | 4 comments

Weight-loss power of oats naturally mimics popular obesity drugs (newatlas.com)