Issue #72 (October 2020)

• News: FDA allows certain cranberry products and dosages to claim that they reduce the frequency of recurrent UTIs in women.
  The United States Food and Drug Administration is allowing qualified health claims for specific cranberry products. Emphasis on "qualified."
• Chromium supplementation for glycemic control in type 2 diabetes
  This meta-analysis suggests that chromium may help glycemic control, but the results weren't robust, leaving room for more high-quality evidence.
• Alpha-lipoic acid for taming high triglycerides and boosting weight loss
  The good news: R-ALA had a strong effect! The bad news: the effect was causing gastrointestinal problems.
• Deep Dive: Low glycemic index diets for PCOS. Do they work?
  Preliminary evidence suggests that low glycemic index diets help with many aspects of polycystic ovarian syndrome. Still, it's hard to say how much of these effects are attributable to glycemic index alone.
• Deep Dive: Low carb diets for type 2 diabetes: beneficial but difficult to maintain
  Low carb diets can help people with diabetes lower average blood sugar and lose weight, but the benefits only stick around for the short term.
• Mini: Predicting the route of the regain train Open Access
  Here, we give the lowdown on a secondary analysis of a clinical trial exploring what factors can predict regaining weight.
• Deep Dive: Is there an optimal way to take omega-3s for improved cardiovascular outcomes in people at high risk?
  Over 1 gram of EPA a day keeps cardiovascular problems at bay.
• Recovering from osteoarthritis surgery: a joint effort between amino acid supplementation and exercise
  Adding amino acid supplementation to mixed-mode exercise may improve pain and preserve muscle compared to exercise alone. More data would be useful, though.

Researchers

Wyatt Brown; Dylan T. Dahlquist, MSc, CSCS; Antonis Damianou, MSc; Brad Dieter, PhD; Rachel Hathcock, BSN, RN, CCRA; Nick Milazzo, MS(c); Katherine Pett, MS, RDN; Zad Rafi, BA; Brandon Roberts PhD, MS, CSCS; Lucas Roldos Saibene, BSc, MSc(c); Jill Ryer-Powder, PhD; Lucas Tafur, PhD

Editors

Gregory Lopez, MA, PharmD

Reviewers

Stephan Guyenet, PhD & Adel Moussa, PhD

Copy Editor

Dmitri Barvinok

Infographics

Antonius Khengdro & Calla Lee