Does Erythritol Increase the Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke?
In this blog post, I am reviewing and critiquing the recently published study linking the sugar-substitute erythritol to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
New Study on Time-Restricted Eating and Weight Loss
A new randomized controlled clinical trial has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine that describes the impact of 8-hour time-restricted eating on weight loss in the context of a calorie-restricted diet. This blog post summarizes what time-restricted eating is, outlines the animal experiments that initially suggested that time-restricted eating could be a valuable tool for weight loss, and reviews the data from the new as well as older trials.