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4 stories tagged "metabolic-health"

Brain & Aging

The Sweeteners Sold to Diabetics as the Safe Swap Tracked With Faster Brain Aging

Brazilian researchers followed 12,772 adults for eight years. The ones consuming the most artificial sweeteners, about a diet soda's worth a day, showed cognitive decline equal to 1.6 extra years of brain aging, and diabetics fared worst.

Metabolic & Weight

Obesity Stopped Denting Older Adults' Metabolic Numbers: In the Young It's Biting Harder Than Ever

For middle-aged and older adults, extra weight no longer tracks with the cardiovascular damage it once did. For the young, the same fat is biting harder and earlier. The lab panels converged; the fat didn't.

Metabolic & Weight

Your Kidneys Are Quietly Failing. The WHO's Plan Skips What's Actually Killing Them.

The Lancet is pushing fast implementation of the first WHO kidney resolution, which expands screening and treatment access while leaving the ultraprocessed food and sugar driving the global CKD doubling untouched.

Nutrition & Food

The sugar-free mice got sicker, and the press release left out what they were eating instead

A 16-week mouse study presented at ENDO 2026 reported that sugar-free animals developed insulin resistance, gut dysbiosis and fatty liver at the same body weight as controls. The press release never says what replaced the sugar, and that single missing detail decides what the study actually means.