Stephan J. Guyenet
@sguyenet
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The neuroscience of eating behavior and obesity. Author of The Hungry Brain. Founder and director of Red Pen Reviews. Neuroscience PhD, University of WA.
Seattle, WA
Joined April 2011
Earlier today, I posted a graph showing that added sugar intake in the US today is similar to what it was 100 years ago. However, if we go back 200 years, sugar intake was much lower.
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USDA data suggest that we eat about as much sugar in the US today as we did 100 years ago. Total caloric sweetener intake = cane and beet sugar, corn sweeteners, edible syrups, and honey.
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Article in which I argue that nutrition misinformation has a meaningful impact on public health, plausibly causing tens of thousands of premature deaths per year in the US. Link below.
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AI is rewriting how companies work — and not everyone will survive! Watch @RamaswmySridhar, CEO of @Snowflake, break down how the next 2 years will transform workflows, data, and leadership. Watch full conversation below 👇
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I recently leafed through an old Garfield comic book from 1990: "Garfield goes to waist" Half the jokes are just making fun of fat people It's interesting how much norms have changed around that
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This is cool. I feel bullish that we're going to have more effective prevention and treatment strategies for Alzheimer's disease when my generation needs them.
The largest GWAS for Alzheimer's disease is now out 👉109,479 cases, 74,141 proxy cases, 2,131,799 controls, 499,708 proxy controls 👉improved SNP-based heritability: 5% in previous studies --> 19% 👉127 loci, 48 novel with enrichment in microglia & neurons
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The death toll of US foreign aid cuts is mounting https://t.co/VFqUepjZCW
apnews.com
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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MMWR stole the show in the first round of headlines about CDC cuts but in the chaos, many missed that the NHANES mobile team remains RIF'd. This is the backbone of this key survey that contains some of the only nationally representative standardized anthropometric, biochemical,
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Yikes! NHANES is where we get high-quality information about the health and nutrition of Americans. For example, NHANES is how we know what percentage of American adults and kids have obesity. Hard to understand how this staffing cut fits with MAHA's stated goals.
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
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NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
statnews.com
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
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Job alert! We are looking for 2 post-docs to join our lab. Spread the word! https://t.co/A6gz07ZGSn
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Food Intelligence -- a new book by @KevinH_PhD and @juliaoftoronto about the science of nutrition and metabolism -- was just published yesterday. I'm looking forward to reading it.
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This is amazing. My thesis work was on polyglutamine disorders, of which Huntington's is the most common. At the time, successful therapy for these horrible diseases felt very far away.
Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC
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Is it just me, or has the public nutrition space mostly moved on from the notion that carbohydrate intake is the main cause of obesity?
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NIH grantmaking appears to be back on track! Withholding science funding was a major unforced error. Very glad to see this reversal.
A frenzy of grantmaking in August has the NIH seemingly on pace to spend its entire $47 billion budget by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30
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