Marit Kolby

Did we get dietary saturated fats all wrong? The #HADLmodel provides a new understanding and an opportunity to get it right. THREAD👇👇👇 @simondankel @kariannesve academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-a…

Good definition of UPF: "Evolutionarily novel", "industrial formulations manufactured by deconstructing foods into their component parts (such as oils, starches & sweeteners), modifying them (for example, through enzymatic processes) & recombining them with cosmetic additives"

Stumbled upon this piece I wrote a while ago. I think the answer has never been clearer. medium.com/@maritkolby/th…

"A simple bread replacement may not be sufficient to improve glucose homeostasis in individuals at risk of type 2 diabetes" Let me suggest _bread removal_, if improved glucose homeostasis is the goal. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40571100/

Svært god kommentar som beskriver hvorfor regjeringens strategi mot desinformasjon bør skrotes.

Let me introduce the ultra-processing factor: the difference between processed and ultra-processed versions of the same foods. Does it matter for health? Can we claim it doesn't? Here, exemplified by breads. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40647225/

Spent my morning reading this paper. It's highly recommended.

Do we need more nutrition podcasts at this point? Apparently. @TyRBeal has made a promising addition with his Ty Beal Show. I loved your conversation with @sguyenet 🙏

"Excessive UPF intake is significantly associated with an increased risk of female infertility" bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

"The findings indicate that a reduction in saturated fats cannot be recommended at present to prevent cardiovascular diseases and mortality" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12…

In my crystal ball I see both anemia and non-anemic iron deficiency linked with ultra-processed diets. Because they create low grade inflammation. Low grade inflammation shuts down the functional iron supply via hepcidin (gut transfer) and ferritin (sequestering).

Not surprised. "Non-commercial actors framed obesity in biomedical, lifestyle and socioecological terms, whereas commercial actors exclusively framed obesity as an issue of individual choices and proposed behavioural change interventions" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Emulsifiers are everywhere in industrial foods. They disrupt metabolism and gut homeostasis in animals. nature.com/articles/s4200…

Is plant protein better than animal protein for health? Not according to these data. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/ap…

I would rephrase to "soda" instead of "sugary drinks", as the artificially sweetened drinks are just as bad. But yes. Soda has no place in sports. bmj.com/content/389/bm…

"While examination of the issues that the authors articulate will take time, they unveil a simple fact - eating whole foods is an achievable path to health now" True in 2020. Still true. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32708552/

To solve the ill health epidemic caused by ultra-processed diets, we must return to the diets we ate prior to the epidemic of ultra-processed foods. Somehow, in nutrition science, this is considered a radical stance.

"Foods that predicted .. inflammation in children all belonged to the category of ultra-processed foods ... None of the minimally processed foods predicted inflammation" Hypotheses from this study can be tested. Meanwhile, children should eat less UPF. academia.edu/3067-1345/2/2/…

"Overall, it paints a devastating portrait of how our society has failed our children" foodpolitics.com/2025/05/the-ma…

"Samples from people with diets rich in ultra-processed foods were more likely to contain a metabolite linked to an increased risk of type-2 diabetes — and some of these people’s urine samples contained a molecule produced by certain food packaging" nature.com/articles/d4158…

UPF science is evolving. High-UPF diets show distinct blood & urine metabolomic profiles—matching known harms. Biomarkers may soon track UPF exposure & deepen our understanding of how UPFs cause disease. Yet policy action still lags. journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…