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Fibre: The Nutrient Almost Nobody Gets Enough Of
Most adults eat half the recommended amount. Small swaps close the gap faster than any supplement.
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How Much Protein Do You Actually Need?
The RDA is a floor, not a target. What the trials say for ageing, training and weight loss.
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Which Supplements Survive Scrutiny?
Vitamin D, creatine, omega-3 and the long list with far less behind them than the label suggests.
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The Mediterranean Diet, 60 Years On
The most studied eating pattern in the world — and what the trials actually show for heart and brain.
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DASH: Still the Best Diet for Blood Pressure
Designed in a lab, proven in clinics. How it works and how to run it without counting anything.
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Why Most Diets Fail at Month Five
Weight regain is physiological, not moral. What actually predicts long-term maintenance.
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Ultra-Processed Foods and Cardiovascular Risk
A large observational study, a real signal, and three reasons it can't prove causation on its own.
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Vitamin D Misses Another Endpoint
A well-powered randomised trial finds no fracture benefit in replete adults. Who might still benefit.
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Sugar Taxes, Four Years On
Reformulation has done more than consumer behaviour change. The natural experiments now agree.
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