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8,300 Brazilian elders, one saltshaker, and the 80 percent of sodium nobody mentions

A Frontiers in Public Health survey of 8,336 Brazilians over 60 found older men reach for the saltshaker most. Buried in the same paper: the shaker only accounts for 6 to 20 percent of total sodium. The other 70-plus percent already arrived from the factory.

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American Doctors Get About 1.2 Hours of Nutrition Training a Year. RFK Jr. Just Found the Lever.

Kennedy got eight organizations across U.S. medical training and 73 medical schools to commit to nutrition in licensing, accreditation, and a 40-hour pledge. The board exam matters; the rest is partly hedging.

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The thin trial behind England's next supermarket-layout mandate

A non-randomized trial of 36 English discount stores produced a moment-of-implementation bump in produce sales that lost statistical significance by three months, and a household-purchasing signal that never landed. The authors' immediate call for a national layout mandate is the louder finding.

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He Shou Wu's Hair-Loss Pitch Is Better Than I Expected. Its Liver Record Is Worse.

Researchers at Guangdong Pharmaceutical University argue Polygonum multiflorum could become the next pattern-baldness lead. The follicle biology is interesting. The case series of acute liver failure on four continents are not.

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The supplement aisle has spent twenty years getting older Americans wrong

A May 2026 review by two geriatric researchers, syndicated this week by ScienceDaily, restates what twenty years of trial data have already shown: the supplement aisle is built around vague promises older Americans do not need, while protein, the gap that actually moves aging outcomes, sits in the m

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Yale's Olive Oil Cancer Story Did Not Actually Test Olive Oil

A Yale mouse study reported in Cancer Discovery is being sold as proof that olive oil fuels pancreatic cancer. The lab fed the mice purified oleic acid, the effect only showed up in males, and no one has tested it in a person.