Ali Arjomand, PhD

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...

Can you show me a randomized control trial where the dietary guidelines are fed. Period.

Why stop at cookies? Let’s have a National Cigarette Smoking Day too! Because who needs lungs when you can have fun? 😂 #Sarcasm #NationalCookieDay

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

The truth about raw milk and why experts are ‘absolutely horrified’ by the trend US officials recently detected bird flu in raw milk. Meanwhile, TikTok and RFK Jr are touting its supposed health benefits

www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

All you have to do is convince a portion of patients that this approach works. Not hard to do these day. 🤯

A link between metabolic syndrome, age/duration of exposure, and all-cause dementia from a prospective study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Happy to do it. You ask a good question and it deserves a good answer. 🙏🏼

Understood. I’ll put something together for you. Big picture: for 50 years Ag was primarily concerned with production yield. It was successful but this had significant costs to diversity, environment, and here, to net nutrient quality/density.

Here is a more recent publication @tamarhaspel.bsky.social

www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/13...

Certainly. Here is a key publication.

journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view...

Some data here is based on dry weight. Increased net yield can help to offset some of the nutrient dilution, but again, who is going to eat 10 servings of vegetables per day.

Also:
www.ateamfoundation.org/blog-1/2020/...

Nutrient yield per acre is down. And you can’t expect Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables to make up the difference. They’re not even hitting the current targets.

Quality vs Quantity. I wrote a position paper on this subject last year. One key finding is the lower nutrient composition of crops produced using modern agricultural practices. Looking at yield/quantity misses a big part of the picture (quality). See what happens when harvesting before ripeness...

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.

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...

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...

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

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.