Nutrition and Fitness News

Consuming just 1 g of omega-3 a day may moderately slow down biological aging, an analysis published in Nature Aging showed.

As the body of research expands on the potential of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists to address various health issues, recent data suggest they may improve brain health.

Women with hypertension who followed a very low-calorie ketogenic diet had greater reductions in systolic and diastolic blood pressure than those who engaged in intermittent fasting, researchers reported.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — As interest in alternative treatment options grow, a speaker at South Beach Symposium shared her go-to nutrition guidelines for patients suffering from hair loss.

Food insecurity occurred frequently among pregnant individuals and increased the risk for multiple adverse health outcomes like gestational diabetes and preeclampsia, results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open suggested.

Foods advertised during NFL games were typically high in content like fat, sodium and calories, a cross-sectional analysis in JAMA Network Open showed.

Carbonated water may indirectly produce weight loss by boosting metabolism and blood glucose uptake, according to a brief report in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health.

Use of a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2, or SGLT2, inhibitor combined with calorie restriction resulted in greater rates of type 2 diabetes remission compared with calorie restriction alone, according to results of a randomized study published in BMJ.

Young boys who ate a greater proportion of ultraprocessed foods were more likely to develop overweight or obesity by age 5 years, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Tracking lipid variability may be a reliable method of predicting dementia and cognitive decline among community-dwelling older adults, according to new research from Neurology.