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Eating more dairy while dieting didn’t make bad cholesterol go up or good cholesterol go down—it didn’t hurt heart health markers at all.
Even though people ate more dairy, their body didn’t make more of the active form of vitamin D—so the hormone that might affect fat cells stayed the same.
Eating more dairy didn’t change the hormone that regulates calcium in the blood—so the body’s calcium system didn’t respond the way some theories predicted.
Eating more dairy doesn’t make your body burn more calories at rest—your metabolism stayed the same whether you ate a lot or a little dairy while dieting.
People who ate more dairy didn’t move more or less than those who ate less dairy—both groups were equally active, so activity levels didn’t affect the results.
People who ate more dairy had slightly different metabolism after meals even before the diet started, so any difference seen later wasn’t caused by the dairy they ate during the diet.
Whether people eat a lot or a little dairy while dieting, their blood levels of inflammation markers and hormones like insulin and leptin change the same way—dairy doesn’t make a difference.
Eating more dairy while dieting doesn’t reduce inflammation in fat tissue—both groups had the same levels of immune cells and inflammatory signals in their fat.
Eating more dairy doesn’t make fat cells shrink faster when people are on a diet—both groups’ fat cells got smaller at about the same rate.
People who eat more dairy while dieting end up with higher levels of vitamin D in their blood than those who eat less dairy—even if they both started out low on vitamin D.
When overweight or obese people eat fewer calories and either eat a little dairy or a lot of dairy, they lose about the same amount of weight and belly fat—dairy doesn’t help them lose more.
To stop metabolic diseases, doctors might need new treatments that make small fat cells grow, create new fat cells, and shrink big ones.
Scientists don’t know enough about how the whole mix of small and big fat cells works together to affect health.
Even small fat cells can be unhealthy and unable to grow when needed, which might cause problems too.
Making big fat cells smaller by eating less, moving more, or having weight-loss surgery helps fat cells work better and improves your health.
When fat cells get too big, they don't work well and the body tries to stop them from growing further to avoid damage and swelling.
When your body has extra energy, it stores it in fat cells by making the cells bigger or making more of them.
One in three of these students had thoughts of ending their life — a rate higher than seen in many other war-affected groups, meaning universities need to act fast to prevent suicide.
At first, students felt worse — then they got a little better in 2023 — but by 2024, they felt even worse than before. This means they didn’t just get used to the war — their mental health got worse again.
No matter when they were surveyed, students who were more afraid of the war were also more emotionally drained — this connection stayed strong throughout the war.
Where students were living during the war mattered more for their emotional exhaustion than how long the war had been going on — being forced to move hurt more than just the passage of time.
When students are both scared of the war and feel lonely or depressed, their burnout gets much worse — it’s not just the sum of each stressor, but a combined effect.
In 2023, students felt less emotionally drained — but by 2024, they were burned out again, even more than before.
Students who were more depressed also had much higher levels of fear and emotional exhaustion — the worse their depression, the worse their fear and burnout.