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A ketogenic diet did 2 to 3 times more for liver insulin sensitivity at matched weight loss
Diet trials usually compare diets producing different amounts of weight loss, so the diet and the pounds cannot be told apart. A Cell Metabolism trial held the loss at about 10% across three diets, and the composition still mattered.
Sep 1, 2026
The sweetener in your sugar-free label is also made by your body, and its level tracks insulin resistance
Erythritol is sold as a sweetener and quietly produced inside us from glucose. In 802 adults on a weight-loss trial, the people whose blood erythritol fell furthest were the ones whose insulin resistance improved most, two years on.
Aug 31, 2026
Sitting at the top of the 'normal' BMI range carried 78% more type 2 diabetes across 1.8 million people
Guidelines draw the risk line at a BMI of 25 and treat everything below it as fine. Pooling 11 cohorts, researchers found people at 22.5 to 24.9 already carried substantially more diabetes than people lower in the same band.
Aug 31, 2026
A third of people with 'preclinical' obesity crossed into the clinical kind within five years
A Lancet commission split obesity into two conditions: one that is only a body measurement, one that has started causing harm. Nobody had counted how often people move between them. In 92,396 US adults, 26% did in under three years.
Aug 31, 2026