食物

常见食物的成分,以及不受食品行业资助的研究显示了什么。

  1. 超加工食品

    超加工食品的NOVA定义、供餐试验、队列研究中观察到的关联,以及已在人体中检验的作用机制。

  2. 乳制品

    乳糖的消化与乳糖酶持续性,以及牛奶与骨折、心脏病、糖尿病和前列腺癌之间关系的证据。

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  1. Palm and seed oils

    Fatty acids of palm, soybean, canola and corn oil, their digestion and conversion, trials on cholesterol and death, industry funding and refining contaminants.

  2. Sugar and fructose

    How the liver metabolises fructose through ketohexokinase and aldolase B, and what trials and industry documents show about sugar and health.

  3. Red and processed meat

    Haem, nitrite, heterocyclic amines and carnitine in red and processed meat, the IARC classification, and cohort risks of bowel cancer and heart disease.

  4. Eggs

    Cholesterol, choline and lutein in egg yolk, how the gut absorbs cholesterol, egg feeding trials, egg-industry funding and conflicting cohort studies.

  5. Olive oil

    Fatty acids and phenolic compounds of olive oil, their metabolism, the PREDIMED trial, its retraction and republication, and the EFSA polyphenol claim.

  6. Coffee

    Caffeine, chlorogenic acids and cafestol in coffee, caffeine breakdown by CYP1A2, unfiltered coffee and LDL, caffeine in pregnancy, cohort and genetic studies.

  7. Alcohol

    Ethanol oxidation by ADH1B, CYP2E1 and ALDH2, the ALDH2*2 flush and oesophageal cancer, and the evidence on light drinking, mortality and stroke.

  8. Salt

    Sodium chloride in the diet, renal sodium handling and the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system, trials of salt reduction and substitution, and iodised salt.

  9. Grains, starch and fibre

    Starch structure and digestion, glycaemic response, fibre fermentation to short-chain fatty acids, coeliac disease and evidence on fibre and whole grains.

  10. Fish and omega-3 fats

    EPA and DHA in fish, their limited synthesis from α-linolenic acid by FADS2 and FADS1, methylmercury, and the absolute results of four omega-3 trials.