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Sodium
Feeding adults with type 2 diabetes a DASH-style diet lowered three separate blood sugar markers
The DASH diet was built for blood pressure. A version tailored for diabetes was tested by cooking every meal for 101 people, which removes the usual problem of not knowing what anyone actually ate.
Sep 8, 2026
More fish was not better: the lowest deaths sat mid-range
A Japanese cohort of 90,944 adults found the lowest all-cause mortality in women eating the second-highest amount of fish, not the highest. In men the benefit appeared only for stroke deaths, and only for unsalted fish.
Aug 14, 2026
Who benefits from cutting salt varies 15-fold
Guidelines tell everyone to eat less sodium. Pooling 160 studies, researchers found blood pressure response depends heavily on age, starting pressure and body weight.
Aug 2, 2026
Salt tracked with diabetes risk, measured in urine
A Diabetes Care study measured sodium in repeat 24-hour urine samples from 3,173 adults and found the highest intakes carried 2.66 times the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Jul 29, 2026