Here are some of the interesting things that I came across in the past week.

Nutrition Related

The ISSN published a review on caffeine and athletic performance (PDF).  It is a long one, and eventually I will get to reviewing it here.

There is a U curve for mortality for HbA1C in diabetic subjects, and further research will need to confirm and possibly influence guideline revision on treatment.

Does homocysteine really cause heart disease?  A review on the evidence. Though B vitamins like folic acid help with homocysteine lowering, it may not reduce disease risk.

A well written article by Alan Aragon on fructose.  Is it really the demon that most people think it is?  A recent journal review also came out this month on the topic.

Seems like a leptin mimic that likely better penetrates the blood brain barrier is in development, and undergoing study soon.  I am sure there are others in development, this was proposed nearly a decade ago as an obesity treatment (for selective leptin resistance).

Other

If you’ve been following the blog, last week I posted a link to a study that found Leukocyte Telomere Length loss was slowed in a prospective fish oil study, which may be a biomarker of ageing and explain why fish oil improves survival in CHD patients.  Now an observational study finds runners have longer LTL.  Paper here.

A description of how Bjorn Brembs and Bruno van Swinderen discovered a unique fly model for ADHD.  Very cool study and insight by Bjorn.