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According to a recent Penn State estimate, the average American who uses supplements spends about $510 annually. Unfortunately, most of this money is wasted on products that don't work as promised. There's a million and one reasons why something claimed to work might actually do nothing for you:
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The Examine team has spent over a decade systematically collating data from tens of thousands of human trials.
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A health intervention database will list all the health outcomes it was tested for. (These outcomes are grouped under health conditions and goals to make it easier for you to find relevant information.)
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Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) include diets, foods, supplements, exercise, and more. First-choice treatment or prevention strategies are often NPIs — due to various possible factors, such as efficacy, safety, cost, or ease of access.
Tens of thousands of NPI studies get published each year. No single person can read them all — and much less understand them all, since many were written by specialists for other specialists in their field. That’s why the Examine team has tripled in size over the past couple of years: we needed more researchers with different fields of expertise.
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As a team, we collect thousands of new studies every month, select the most noteworthy, and summarize the key takeaways for you in plain English.
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A dietary pattern characterized by a high intake of fresh fruits, low-fat milk, boiled/baked potatoes, and legumes and a low intake of higher-fat/processed meat, butter/animal fat, red meat, and low-fiber bread was associated with a reduced risk for type 2 diabetes independent of changes in body weight.
A hypocaloric high-protein low-glycemic index diet decreased body weight and improved some metabolic risk factors more than a hypocaloric balanced control diet in people with metabolic dysfunction-associated nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
In women, morning exercise training elicited greater improvements in body fat, blood pressure, and lower body muscular power, whereas evening exercise increased upper body muscular performance. In men, evening exercise was more effective for reducing blood pressure and increasing fat oxidation.
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