Health Claims

Mice with less Cideb protein burned more calories overall, even when eating the same high-fat diet as other mice.

Quantitative

When Cideb was reduced in obese mice, their bodies responded better to insulin because harmful fat molecules in cell membranes dropped, which helped insulin signaling work better in liver and muscle.

Mechanistic

When scientists reduced a specific protein called Cideb in obese mice, their livers stored much less fat because the liver started burning more fat and making less new fat.

Mechanistic

Men tend to eat more after working out on an empty stomach in the evening, but women don’t — which might make fasting a better weight-loss strategy for women.

Quantitative

Working out on an empty stomach before an evening workout makes you feel less motivated to start and less satisfied afterward, which might make you less likely to keep doing it.

Descriptive

Working out on an empty stomach before an evening workout makes you less able to push hard during a short, intense effort.

Quantitative

Working out on an empty stomach in the evening makes your body burn more fat and less sugar during the workout.

Quantitative

Skipping a meal before an evening workout makes people eat less overall during the day, even if they eat a bit more right after exercising.

Quantitative

Just eating more or fewer calories affects your body differently than eating processed foods—even if the total calories are the same.

Descriptive

People who eat a lot of processed foods may have more toxic chemicals from packaging in their blood and less of a naturally occurring mineral called lithium, which might help explain why these foods are harmful.

Descriptive

Men who eat mostly processed foods may have sperm that don’t swim as well, which could make it harder to get a partner pregnant—even if they’re otherwise healthy.

Descriptive

Eating a lot of processed foods may lower two important hormones—one that helps control appetite and another that helps make sperm—which could hurt both your metabolism and fertility.

Descriptive

Eating lots of highly processed foods like chips, sodas, and frozen meals can make you gain weight and worsen your 'bad' cholesterol compared to 'good' cholesterol—even if you eat the same number of calories as someone eating whole foods.

Descriptive

Wakame works a bit like other high-fiber foods to slow down sugar absorption after meals.

Descriptive

Wakame starts working to lower blood sugar and insulin just 30 minutes after you eat it with rice.

Quantitative

Adding a tiny bit of wakame to your rice or pasta might be an easy way to keep your blood sugar from shooting up after meals, especially if you’re at risk for diabetes.

Descriptive

When you eat wakame with rice, your body doesn’t need to pump out as much insulin to handle the sugar, which might help your cells respond better to insulin.

Causal

Adding a small amount of wakame seaweed to rice helps keep your blood sugar and insulin from spiking too high right after eating.

Causal

Cooking eggs makes your body able to use almost twice as much of their protein as eating them raw.

Descriptive

Well-cooked beef helps older people build more protein in their bodies than rare beef, even if both are digested the same amount.

Descriptive

Ground beef gets digested faster than a steak, so your body can use its protein more efficiently, especially as you get older.

Descriptive

How milk is turned into yogurt or cheese changes how fast your body absorbs its protein—some forms digest faster than others.

Descriptive

Overheating milk, especially with sugar, can damage an important amino acid called lysine, making your body unable to use it properly.

Descriptive

Breaking down protein into smaller pieces before you eat it makes your body absorb the amino acids faster and triggers more insulin release.

Descriptive