Hacker News with Generative AI: Diet

Calorie-free sweeteners can disrupt the brain's appetite signals (keck.usc.edu)
A study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found that a common sugar substitute alters brain activity related to hunger and increases appetite, especially in people with obesity.

Health, Diet, Neuroscience, Obesity

8 points by scblzn 7 days ago | 1 comments

Ikarians have low rates of dementia and a unique diet (nypost.com)
You’ve probably heard of the so-called “blue zones” — five areas in the world that longevity expert Dan Buettner identified as having residents who routinely live to be over 100.

Health, Diet, Longevity, Greece

4 points by keepamovin 44 days ago | 2 comments

Can Dieting Lead to Long-Term Weight Loss? (nytimes.com)
Dieting has long been viewed as the path to smaller bodies and better health. Stick to the right diet, the $75 billion U.S. weight loss industry may have you think, and you, too, can lose weight and keep it off.

Weight Loss, Health, Diet, Nutrition

5 points by paulpauper 55 days ago | 0 comments

My Trip to Quit Sugar Quickly Became a Journey into Hell (nytimes.com)
For my whole life, I’ve been a hard-core sweets junkie. Could a spa help me quit in a week?

Health, Lifestyle, Diet, Addiction

18 points by gmays 55 days ago | 7 comments

Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body (arstechnica.com)
What could go wrong with eating an extremely high-fat diet of beef, cheese, and sticks of butter? Well, for one thing, your cholesterol levels could reach such stratospheric levels that lipids start oozing from your blood vessels, forming yellowish nodules on your skin.

Health, Diet, Weird News, Florida

88 points by nxobject 70 days ago | 88 comments

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 86 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 101 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 114 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 116 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 118 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 173 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 175 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 189 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 190 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 194 days ago | 2 comments

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

Health, Diet, Nutrition

4 points by opisthenar84 195 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 205 days ago | 6 comments

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

Health, Diet, Diabetes, UK

8 points by nabla9 240 days ago | 11 comments

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

Health, Diet, Dementia, Red Meat

8 points by signa11 244 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 246 days ago | 4 comments

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