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This common ingredient in the diet may feed cancer |

This common ingredient in the diet may feed cancer |

A recent study reveals that the type of dietary fat, rather than overall fat mass, significantly impacts cancer development in obese individuals. Animal fats like lard and beef tallow compromise anti-tumor immunity and accelerate tumor growth in mice. You are what you eat. We all have grown up hearing this adage. And guess what, today it carries more weight than …

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Man Follows Diet Advice From ChatGPT, Ends Up With Psychosis

Man Follows Diet Advice From ChatGPT, Ends Up With Psychosis

A case study out this month offers a cautionary tale ripe for our modern times. Doctors detail how a man experienced poison-caused psychosis after he followed AI-guided dietary advice. Doctors at the University of Washington documented the real-life Black Mirror episode in the Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases. The man reportedly developed poisoning from the bromide he had ingested …

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Man sought diet advice from ChatGPT and ended up with ‘bromide intoxication,’ which caused hallucinations and paranoia

Man sought diet advice from ChatGPT and ended up with ‘bromide intoxication,’ which caused hallucinations and paranoia

A man consulted ChatGPT prior to changing his diet. Three months later, after consistently sticking with that dietary change, he ended up in the emergency department with concerning new psychiatric symptoms, including paranoia and hallucinations. It turned out that the 60-year-old had bromism, a syndrome brought about by chronic overexposure to the chemical compound bromide or its close cousin bromine. …

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Machine Gun Kelly’s Lacklustre Diet Goes Viral

Machine Gun Kelly’s Lacklustre Diet Goes Viral

While this clip of MGK detailing his diet was shared a month ago, it has recently started picking up steam online, with several users expressing their concern. “Imagine smoking cigarettes while explaining how you don’t want to put bad shit into your body,” one comment on Instagram read, while someone else echoed, “He lost me when he said he water …

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Ultra-processed foods make up a big portion of Americans’ diet, CDC finds

Ultra-processed foods make up a big portion of Americans’ diet, CDC finds

Most Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods, those super-tasty, energy-dense foods typically full of sugar, salt and unhealthy fats, according to a new federal report. Nutrition research has shown for years that ultra-processed foods make up a big chunk of the U.S. diet, especially for kids and teens. For the first time, however, the U.S. Centers …

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This diet helped people lose twice as much weight, without eating less

This diet helped people lose twice as much weight, without eating less

When given nutritionally matched diets, participants lost twice as much weight eating minimally processed foods compared to ultra-processed foods, suggesting that cutting down on processing could help to sustain a healthy weight long term, finds a new clinical trial led by researchers at UCL and UCLH. The study, published in Nature Medicine, is the first interventional study comparing ultra-processed food …

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Study Shows an AI Diet Could Reduce Risk of Dementia

Study Shows an AI Diet Could Reduce Risk of Dementia

More than 10 million cases of dementia are diagnosed each year, according to Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI). That’s a new case diagnosed roughly every 3.2 seconds. In addition to the personal devastation that this diagnosis causes for affected individuals and their loved ones, ADI estimates that the global cost of dementia will rise to $2.8 trillion by 2030, a number …

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Diet Swap Study Reveals How Ultra-Processed Foods Can Derail Weight Loss

Diet Swap Study Reveals How Ultra-Processed Foods Can Derail Weight Loss

In case you needed more incentive to cut down on ultra-processed foods, a new diet swap study out today reveals that people experienced greater weight loss while eating minimally processed foods than they did when they ate a nutritionally similar, ultra-processed diet. In a six-month trial led by scientists at University College London, study participants were assigned one of the …

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