Health Topics / Nutrition
Nutrition 8 topics · 23 claims
Nutrients and how the body handles them — fiber, resistant starch, beta-glucan, glucose response, and what to make of dietary fats and proteins.
Sweeteners
Sweeteners span everything from table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup to artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose, saccharin) and natural or sugar-a…
Browse Sweeteners →Dietary fiber
5 claimsBroad viscous/fermentable fibers. Help mitigate the GI side effects of GLP-1 drugs and may reduce GLP-1 resistance via gut-barrier support (an emerging, s…
Explore Dietary fiber →Postprandial glucose spikes
4 claimsPost-meal rises in blood sugar. In people with diabetes they clearly matter; the contested part is the popular claim that normal-range spikes meaningfully…
Explore Postprandial glucose spikes →Inulin-type fructans
3 claimsPrebiotic fibers (inulin, oligofructose). Lower fasting glucose in type-2 diabetes (well-supported); raise the appetite hormone GLP-1 and reduce body weig…
Explore Inulin-type fructans →Resistant starch
3 claimsA starch that resists digestion and ferments in the colon. Improves insulin sensitivity and blunts post-meal glucose; does NOT meaningfully reduce body we…
Explore Resistant starch →A1 beta-casein
2 claimsThe A1 variant of milk's beta-casein (releases BCM-7). Reliably worsens GI symptoms versus A2 milk in sensitive people; the claimed effect on cognition is…
Explore A1 beta-casein →Beta-glucan
2 claimsSoluble fiber from oats and barley. Well-supported for lowering LDL cholesterol and reducing the post-meal glucose spike.
Explore Beta-glucan →Psyllium
2 claimsA viscous soluble fiber (husk). Well-supported for both lowering LDL cholesterol and blunting the post-meal glucose rise.
Explore Psyllium →Saturated fat
2 claimsSaturated fat's clearest, best-established effect is raising LDL cholesterol. Its role in heart disease is more nuanced than either camp claims: swapping…
Explore Saturated fat →