Ali Arjomand, PhD
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Ali Arjomand, PhD
@aliarjomand.bsky.social
Nutrition scientist now in clinical practice after seeing too much research & not enough translation. Founder of Diet + Nutrition + Lifestyle Concierge Medicine Virtual Clinic. Focused on gut and metabolic health.
www.modullahealth.com
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Is what you eat determined by corporate power or personal responsibility?

Marion Nestle reveals how food & politics are intertwined.

Lobbying decides:
- where ag subsidies are spent
- which foods are affordable
- what food the government is willing to recommend: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/w...
April 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A Starch- and Sucrose-Reduced Diet Has Similar Efficiency as Low FODMAP in IBS—A Randomized Non-Inferiority Study
www.mdpi.com/2948088
All GI symptoms ⬇️ at 2 weeks
1 in 4 had no symptoms after 4 weeks
After 6 months, 1 in 2 had abdominal pain only 2–3 times/month, no longer meeting IBS criteria
December 3, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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A link between metabolic syndrome, age/duration of exposure, and all-cause dementia from a prospective study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 26, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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It was a pleasure to host Meg Tirrell and colleagues from CNN to cover our ongoing study at the NIH Clinical Center on mechanisms of ultra-processed food. If you subscribe to CNN, you can see the video and read about it here: www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/h...
They’re up to 70% of the American diet. But the US has no policy on ultraprocessed foods | CNN
Federal guidance on the pitfalls of ultraprocessed foods, which likely play a key role in the US obesity epidemic, isn’t yet available. Here’s what’s at stake.
www.cnn.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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Views about the causes of obesity have polarised. Characterised by low carb and energy balance models. Last year NovoNordisk invited the protagonists of these models to Copenhagen to discuss commonalities and differences. The resultant paper has now been published in Nature Metabolism rdcu.be/dZryb
On the pathogenesis of obesity: causal models and missing pieces of the puzzle
Nature Metabolism - This authoritative Perspective lays a foundation for the field of obesity research by comparing commonalities and differences between competing models of obesity pathogenesis...
rdcu.be
November 21, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Dropping twitter for good and restarting here for a sane social engagement. Long overdue transition. Here to help build an engaging and potent nutrition & health focused community.
November 19, 2024 at 9:16 PM