What are these ants doing in #yogurt at the world-famous Alchemist restaurant? Enquiring scientific minds need to know.
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The sequel to @thelancet.com Commission on a #PlanetaryHealthDiet is out. Will the commission's recommendations get more traction this time?
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This week has presented us with a festival of #FatShaming in politics – from the U.S. Secretary of Defense and from detractors of the President alike. Whatever the source, it's an embarrassment to America. We can do better.
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A press release from the UNC School of Medicine tells us #JunkFood can scramble memory in just four days! All this from a study of mouse neurons and high-fat food pellets. Great clickbait if we overlook the element of #hype.
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We often hear confident assertions that #nutrition recommendations for persons living with #obesity are simple and clear. But new research in the Journal of @americanheart.bsky.social tells us these are false assurances.
HT: @ahascience.bsky.social
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Is our perverse economic environment propelling us toward an overwhelming #health problem with #obesity that is becoming a #wealth issue?
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Amid all the talk about ultra-processed food "poisoning" our children, Indonesia offers us a harsh reminder that real #FoodPoisoning presents an acute danger if we neglect #FoodSafety.
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Wait. Aren't #prices for #GLP1s coming down? So why are average out-of-pocket costs for them in #Medicare plans twice as high this year? Twisted economics and profiteering explain a lot.
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What's up with #bimagrumab?
This week, @elilillyandcompany.bsky.social stopped a study of it in combination with #tirzepatide for persons with diabetes and obesity. Meanwhile a study in obesity alone continues. This is a drug that's been through a lot.
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Saying “we will never walk away from the world, or our commitment to end chronic disease,” U.S. Health Secretary RFK Jr. declared yesterday that the U.S. is walking away from a global commitment to fight #ChronicDiseases at the United Nations. 🙄
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Problematic Obesity Research on Apple Cider Vinegar Retracted - ConscienHealth Apple cider vinegar more effective for obesity than semaglutide? Too good to be true, but retraction of this flawed study took 18 months.

Problematic Obesity Research on Apple Cider Vinegar Retracted conscienhealth.org/2025/09/prob... @conscienhealth.bsky.social

"...this retracted paper leaves a residue of misinformation that will not completely disappear."

"This is how bogus ideas live on despite evidence that they are nonsense."

Apple cider vinegar is 50% more effective than semaglutide? This obviously flawed #obesity research took only four months to publish, but 18 months to retract.
HT: @retractionwatch.com
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The most popular post so far in the GROCERY Cart Newsletter... post from @conscienhealth.bsky.social

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Dropping the #TimeSwitch to prevent millions of obesity cases? Like the idea of getting rid of the time switch. But the promise of preventing so much obesity might be an overpromise.
HT: @pnas.org
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If you thought enthusiasm for investing in #ObesityMedicine development was waning, think again. Roche and Pfizer are making big commitments and putting big money on the table.
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Pieter Bruegel Is a brilliant pick for the issue at hand!

Information Cancellation:
Labeling it "fear mongering," USDA will no longer collect data on food insecurity. Who needs data? Together with the largest-ever cuts in #FoodAssistance, this is enough to make us think they don't care about #hunger.
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This looks interesting and perhaps timely given this age of circulating dis/misinformation.

Thanks @conscienhealth.bsky.social!

Will the new book from @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social increase our #FoodIntelligence? Only if we get it and digest it. Having given it a read, we recommend it.
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At #EASD2025 this week, it became plain that competition between @elilillyandcompany.bsky.social and @novonordisk.bsky.social is heating up for an oral tablet to treat #obesity. We see contrasting strategies and sharp elbows.
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In @thelancet.com and at #EASD2025, #tirzepatide is the first therapy to show durable A1c and BMI reductions for kids with type 2 diabetes.
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Survey data presented at #EASD2025 suggests that many people experience a big reduction in #FoodNoise when they take #semaglutide for obesity.
HT: @novonordisk.bsky.social
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Pivotal results for #orforglipron came out today in @nejm.org with simultaneous presentation at #EASD2025. Will it be the GLP-1 for a mass market?

We will see – when @elilillyandcompany.bsky.social brings it to market.
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A new study today in @nature.com Medicine tells us that long-term outcomes with #MetabolicSurgery are better than #GLP1 medicines alone for diabetes and obesity.
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For a long time, much of the effort to prevent early #ChildhoodObesity has focused on parents. New research in @thelancet.com suggests this is ineffective.
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The distinction between opinions and evidence-based guidance is essential. In the attention economy, #ScientificPuffery might be attractive, but it works against credibility. And right now, scientific #credibility is under siege.
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The gap between reality and rhetoric became abundantly clear with the release of the #MAHA (in)action plan. Of course, inaction is better than harmful action.
HT: @hbottemiller.bsky.social
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Correlation, causation, what's the diff? Headlines this week tell us "study finds" that #ClimateChange causes #AddedSugar consumption to go up. Clickbait.
🙄
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A thoughtful commentary and an upcoming book by @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, have us thinking about distinctions between food and the #FoodEnvironment, as well as the problem with calling it all "toxic."
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