Aaron Hengist, PhD
@AaronHengist
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Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at NIDDK Any views are personal and do not represent the views of my agency or the US government
Washington, DC
Joined February 2011
📰 The top new ultra-processed food (UPF) papers/reports in August 📰 I’ve been sharing the top new UPF papers each month on LinkedIn ( https://t.co/PeCR1k0tOp), so I’ll also be sharing on @X as well going forwards!: A 🧵 1/15
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New preprint led by Chris Colvin entitled “Tradeoffs Between Convenience, Cost, and Healthy Eating Index for Diets Aligned to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans but Varying in Ultra-Processed Foods” https://t.co/yM0Tybzi2P
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Background: Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) comprise 65% of US household food purchases and are considered more convenient and economical than many minimally processed foods. Despite evidence linking...
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New Paper⬇️We found that the human gut microbiome remains unchanged in the face of an intensive energy restriction and vigorous exercise intervention that markedly improved body composition and metabolic health in people with overweight/obesity. https://t.co/hYy0iaJsMC
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People often ask me if my studies are still running at NIH after I felt compelled to retire earlier this year. The answer is yes, and @AaronHengist is still recruiting for this one testing the effects on sleeping energy expenditure of nicotinamide riboside supplementation during
Interested in keto diets and sleep patterns? Scientists at NIDDK want to know if an investigational dietary supplement impacts calorie burn during sleep. Call the NIH Office of Patient Recruitment at 866-444-1134. Refer to study #001690-DK. https://t.co/wHweaJc1Cn
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🚨❗ Results of the FIRST EVER trial comparing ultra-processed food (UPF) and minimally-processed food (MPF) diets following healthy dietary guidelines on health (and the longest trial of UPF to date) published today in Nature Medicine What did we find? A Thread… 🧵 1/
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🚨 3-year Post-doc opportunity at the Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism, @CNEM_Bath @UniofBath Opportunity to lead on an RCT involving symbiotic supplementation and ketogenic diets https://t.co/eYgGlN2YHC Building in our prior work https://t.co/EcNhOZfyth
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I’m excited to announce my new book FOOD INTELLIGENCE coauthored with brilliant journalist @juliaoftoronto! Cutting through the confusion about diet & health, #FoodIntelligence describes the fascinating science of how food both nourishes and harms us. https://t.co/xQHklDYVhy
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We are recruiting a Research Dietitian to join our team PROSPECT @kingsmedicine to study the relationship between diet and early onset colorectal cancer. Pls share! Thanks to @CR_UK & @BowelbabeF for funding https://t.co/PxaLOdTjHt
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Wonderful demonstration of how food structure can alter postprandial metabolic and hormone responses Including gastric and duodenal sampling from enteral tubes 🤯 https://t.co/ulud7SSZsx Congrats @MingzhuCai1121 @gfrost59 and colleagues
nature.com
Nature Metabolism - In this randomized crossover pilot study, the authors collected human gastrointestinal digesta using a unique intubation technique to compare how meals with contrasting cellular...
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Two fully funded PhD studentships available within @uoe_npg at @UniofExeter looking at GLP1 agonists, weight loss and nutrition and/or exercise to preserve muscle: https://t.co/9IxHUcgEZ2
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Please share this job opportunity to join our team: https://t.co/LiP1P7wLnj This post is related to the KETO-GENETIC Project: https://t.co/arKrsBddlX A flourishing collaboration between @BristolUni @CNEM_Bath and @imperialcollege funded by @The_MRC
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Does the validity of CGM depend on scanned versus downloaded data? Our response to a letter to the editor can be read for free for the next 50 days here: https://t.co/kjTU33nzjT
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“We experienced what amounts to censorship and controlling of the reporting of our science,” Dr. Hall said. I appreciate @KevinH_PhD sharing his difficult story for my article, and his longstanding commitment to communicating science to the public.
nytimes.com
Kevin Hall said his work on ultraprocessed foods has been “hobbled” under the Trump administration. Scientists have been raising such concerns for months.
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For >20 years obesity was thought to be associated with reduced dopamine receptors in brain reward regions. Now, a big study by @vdarcey shows that this may be have been an artifact (top figure panel) due to brain dopamine tone being positively associated with body fat (bottom).
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Excited to be starting this new study on ketogenic diets and ketone supplements https://t.co/arKrsBddlX
@SophieRussell99 @CNEM_Bath
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New exciting funded PhD studentship opportunity with @WestHam @Gonzalez_JT Tania Griffin David Johnson and myself looking and nutritional behaviour, diet, and injury in academy players please RT ⚽️🍲🤕 @CHi2PSBath @CNEM_Bath @UniofBath ://tinyurl.com/37kwzphr
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Podcast: The science behind the keto diet @guardianscience
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Short video from @AP on our quest to unravel the mechanisms of ultra-processed foods @NIHClinicalCntr @NIDDKgov
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A National Institutes of Health study aims to find out whether ultraprocessed foods lead people to eat more. And, if so, why?
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HOW ACCURATE IS YOUR GLUCOSE MONITOR? Our latest paper shows that a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) can overestimate blood glucose, and the size of this bias varies by person and the meal/beverage ingested… see below for more https://t.co/Mdgp2XGLBm
@AJCNutrition
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