Tweet In the May issue of The Journal of Nutrition there is an interesting new study on salivary amylase variability and postprandial glycemic response to starch consumption by Abigail Mandel and Paul Breslin. It has a very small sample size so we should be reserved about drawing conclusions until further research is done but the [...]
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Tweet The same day as the last post on diet beverages and metabolic syndrome, another relevant paper was published in Circulation by the Harvard group. This is the same group using the same cohort that found no link to artificial sweeteners and diabetes last year. This time they analyzed for heart attacks as the endpoint, [...]
Tweet Last month I wrote about a paper that linked diet soda to an increase in cardiovascular events. The authors (at least first author Dr. Gardener) gave some notes of caution in interpreting the results to some journalists, but overall I strongly disliked how it was covered. It is one study with important limitations that [...]
Tweet Can you imagine that title being reported throughout the media without a fiery backlash of skepticism (except for smug soda drinkers)? Yet the reporting on a new study that indeed found this in their results instead focused on its finding of a positive association between diet soda consumption and vascular events. Many popular websites trumpeted the findings [...]
Tweet Just a quick note, I’ve been playing around with some ways to track publication counts over a number of different research areas within nutritional science to attempt to quantify trends. What I have so far is posted here: http://nutsci.org/nutrition-research-trends/ It uses NCBI E-Utilities, javascript, and Google Spreadsheets to automate tracking of paper count in the pubmed database for [...]
Tweet Like 2010 and 2009, here is my annual list of favorite personal posts, blogs, and twitter people. I hope it can help others discover new sources of information. This year I changed the blog domain to nutsci.org and hope to continue highlighting interesting research as I have time. Favorite Post Topics I didn’t write [...]
Tweet This was an interesting paper that has been sitting in my drafts for awhile, so here is a quick post on it. By Jaroslawska et al., it directly examines the ability of strawberry pomace (leftover from industrial processing of strawberries) to mitigate the adverse metabolic effects of a high fructose intake in rats in [...]
Tweet A new paper by George Bray and colleagues in JAMA examines the effect of altering dietary protein content on weight gain, energy expenditure, and body composition in response to overeating in metabolic units. The rationale being to test the hypothesis of metabolic inefficiency on a low or high protein diet that existing research has suggested. [...]
Tweet Last year around this time I put up a survey to learn more about reader demographics to this blog and posted some of the results here. It proved interesting so I’ve decided to do it again this year using the same questions to see if there are any differences. Here is the link to the survey: [...]
Tweet Metabolic syndrome is characterized by increased oxidative stress and inflammation (Van Guilder, Hoetzer, Greiner, Stauffer, and Desouza, 2006) that may underlie the increased risk for cardiovascular disease (Mottillo et al., 2010). Dietary calcium reduced reactive oxygen species, as well as biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation in mouse models (Sun and Zemel, 2006; Zemel [...]