Nutrition & Food Science

Ultra-Processed Foods, Insulin and Lipedema: Why Two Meals With the Same Calories Can Affect the Body Differently
New research published in Nature Metabolism found that two meals with similar calories and nutritional composition produced different metabolic and…
 • CarinaW
What Happens When Bread Turns Brown? The Science of Acrylamide
What acrylamide in bread, toast and other everyday foods can teach us about food chemistry, potential health risks and making informed choices without…
 • CarinaW
Did You Know That Eating Can Cause Inflammation?
We spend so much time trying to reduce inflammation that we forget why our bodies need it. Even eating can activate inflammatory pathways, but when does…
 • CarinaW
Is the Food We Eat Really as Simple as We Think?
What a Norwegian study on wheat, antinutrients and sourdough reveals about the hidden complexity of food, and why healthy eating is about more than…
 • CarinaW
What Is Gut Health? Understanding the Gut Microbiome, Intestinal Barrier and Immune System
What a “healthy gut” actually means, how gut bacteria interact with the body, and why microbiome diversity alone does not tell the whole story.
 • CarinaW
Anti-Inflammatory Food, Diet and Lifestyle with Lipedema
Anti-inflammatory foods are only one part of the picture. Explore evidence on dietary patterns, sleep, stress and inflammation in lipedema.
 • CarinaW
Hunger and Fullness Hormones: GLP-1, Ghrelin, Leptin and Appetite in Lipedema
How GLP-1, ghrelin, leptin, PYY, CCK and reproductive hormones influence hunger, satiety and weight control, and why appetite can differ so much between…
 • CarinaW
Why I Would Never Give Up Fiber
Fiber is not a treatment for lipedema. But from the gut microbiome and blood sugar to cholesterol, satiety and possibly hormone metabolism, there are…
 • CarinaW
What the Evidence Says About Gluten and Lipedema
What gluten is, who really needs to avoid it, and what the science actually says about gluten and lipedema.
 • CarinaW
Histamine and Lipedema: What Do We Actually Know?
Why histamine is being discussed in the lipedema community, what the research actually shows, and when a low-histamine diet may be worth investigating.
 • CarinaW
What Does “Anti-Inflammatory Food” Actually Mean?
My own MSc research is a useful example of why an effect in a cell, an effect in the blood, and an effect inside lipedema tissue are three very…
 • CarinaW
A Food Scientist Explains Anti-Inflammatory Food
Why “anti-inflammatory” is not a simple food category, and why that matters when you live with lipedema.
 • CarinaW
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