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In a 48-participant randomized study, a prescribed high-fiber dietary intervention produced greater short-term improvements in BMI and HbA1c than metformin alone in adults with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and overweight or obesity.

A review identified 15 reports of Wernicke encephalopathy among patients receiving GLP-1 therapies, most accompanied by poor intake, vomiting, weight loss, or malnutrition, highlighting a rare safety signal without establishing drug-related causality.

A growing body of observational evidence links coffee consumption with lower risks of several cancers, particularly hepatocellular and endometrial cancer, but experts caution that current data do not justify prescribing coffee as a cancer-prevention strategy.

Across three cohorts, molecular patterns in human milk were associated with maternal nutritional status, mammary biological signatures, and infant growth. Seven candidate biomarkers emerged, but their clinical utility and the proposed vitamin B5 mechanism remain unproven.

In a prospective cohort of more than 112,000 French adults, higher intake of several commonly used food preservatives was associated with increased risks of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, though the observational design cannot determine whether the additives themselves caused the observed outcomes.