Brenda Davy PhD RDN

And a big Thank You to former Davy Lab PHD student (now Associate Professor at the University of if Utah) Tanya Halliday PhD RDN for finding some of the canned peaches we needed a few years back *in Utah* & shipping them to me!! @nutritionnerd.bsky.social I bought all I could track down is SW Va…..

The nonUPF Cape Cod kettle chips…so tasty…

Our intervention diets were well matched as were our items in the test meals. A secondary aim was to examine food choice of either UPF or MPF items. More info on the foods is in our previous paper.

doi.org/10.1016/j.cc...

We also tested eating in the absence of hunger, a metric that predicts later weight gain in young people. Again the adolescents ate more after the UPF diet than the nonUPF diet.
They weren’t any hungrier before either meal and controlling for hunger or weight variation didn’t change our results.

We were of course inspired by @kevinh-phd.bsky.social but also asked what happens to energy intake if you hold weight stable and test younger people.
We found that overall w/o weight gain UPF consumption did not increase energy intake. But if you examined our data by age younger people ate more.

@davybrenda.bsky.social and I’s UPF RCT is finally published!
We tested the effects of a eucaloric UPF vs no UPF diet on energy intake in young people.
Our age subgroup analysis found adolescents ate more in a buffet meal after the UPF diet. 🧵🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

OMG freakin’ canned peaches…the backstory…🤦‍♀️

“..it should be junked at this point.”

(clearly more than just a formatting problem, which is how the administration is describing the errors)

“White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say”
@washingtonpost.com

White House Health Report Included Fake Citations

Errors were “characteristic of the use of generative AI.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

Oh good grief.

“RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals” @washingtonpost.com

4 Key Takeaways from a New White House Report on Children’s Health

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/w...

Water intake, hydration, and weight management: the glass is half-full! The lack of practical and effective strategies to manage hunger and adhere to a weight management intervention represents a critical barrier to the we…

Our new water and weight control paper is out! From the 2024 @ssibsociety.bsky.social meeting -
A brief research overview and description on our ongoing trial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Opinion | Kennedy Is Right About the Chemicals in Our Food

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...

Opinion | Can New Weight-Loss Drugs Help in a World Awash in Addictive Foods?

Interesting commentary article from Dr. David Kessler: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...

“..research has found microplastics everywhere…even in human brains…”

Microplastics may confuse bees and other insects, hurting pollination @washingtonpost.com

RFK Jr. Wants to Ban Food Dyes. Manufacturers Are in No Hurry. Companies make packaged food without synthetic dyes in other countries. But despite pressure from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the change isn’t likely to happen quickly in the United States.

Companies make packaged food without synthetic dyes in other countries. But despite pressure from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, the change isn’t likely to happen in the U.S. quickly.

Kennedy Wants to Ban Some Food Dyes. Here’s What the Data Shows. The federal health department has said it will move to phase out eight artificial dyes, citing health concerns.

It really seems like the administration’s focus on UPF is limited to this…at least a step in the right direction?!? But UPF appear to be problematic in so many other ways.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/w...

If you have NIH funding or are submitting proposals - fyi:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

WATCH: Dr. Kevin Hall is departing NIH after 21 years at his “dream job.” He says his research findings were being censored under RFK Jr.

"What is it going to be like if they want to start actually meddling in the research itself?"

Anyone else oscillating between fury & existential crisis this morning?

…a 40% budget cut for what was our primary science funder…consolidating a bunch of institutes into an
Institute of Body Systems?!? Maybe they can get Ms. Frizzle to run that one…..

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with framed pictures on it ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with framed pictures on it

Ugh so sorry….

Top NIH nutrition researcher studying ultraprocessed foods departs, citing censorship under Kennedy | CNN When President Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his choice to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, one group of health researchers was cautiously optimistic that their cause...

www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/h...

The Nutritionist Marion Nestle Meets Her Moment, At 88 After five decades in the field of nutrition, Dr. Marion Nestle thought she had seen it all. Then came “Make America Healthy Again.”

On nutrition: “The best advice is boring”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/w...

yikes -would really like to know more about how packaged foods may be contributing to this….
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/w...

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist Young researchers are choosing between staying in science or staying in the United States.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Help track what’s at stake

West Virginia Bans 7 Artificial Food Dyes, Citing Health Concerns At least 20 other states are considering bills restricting the use of certain food dyes and additives.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/w...

@virginiatech.bsky.social #Hokies WBB getting started in game 2 of the #WBIT vs. Texas Tech

Hokies up 39-18 vs NC A&T in first round WBIT - great response after going 0-11 in the start of the first qtr! @virginiatech.bsky.social