Why Adding Potassium May Matter as Much as Cutting Sodium for Blood Pressure
New evidence challenges the sodium-only focus, showing potassium deficiency plays a critical independent role in hypertension.
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New evidence challenges the sodium-only focus, showing potassium deficiency plays a critical independent role in hypertension.
A critical review finds that RCT evidence on ultra-processed foods overstates harm and buries contradictory findings.
A quasi-experimental study in Somalia finds community-based SAM treatment achieves 89% recovery with 7 fewer days than clinic care.
Men with lower folate levels had significantly fewer sperm and higher odds of abnormal semen analysis, a new cross-sectional study finds.
Researchers propose expanding AI-nutrition frameworks to tackle the practical barriers preventing personalized dietary guidance from reaching patients.
A Harvard study finds maternal free vitamin D — not total — may be the key driver of offspring asthma risk, especially when mothers have asthma.
A crossover trial finds complementary plant proteins work as well as isolated nutrients for post-exercise muscle protein synthesis.
New lipidomics research reveals breast milk positions DHA and palmitic acid differently than maternal or fetal blood, suggesting a purposeful metabolic design.
A methodological guide shows how mimicking randomized trials in nutrition observational studies can sharpen causal conclusions.
New analysis of 382 adults finds individual glucose responses follow the glycemic index, not personal food quirks.
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A well-designed trial to reduce added sugar in children's diets raised an unexpected concern: compensatory increases in sodium consumption.