
Aaron Hengist, PhD
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Today,Dr. Robert M. Califf testified to the US Senate that our UPF research is "tremendous" and "important"! I'll discuss our studies and how to accelerate the science of elucidating UPF mechanisms driving chronic disease at a NIH U.S. FDA meeting on Dec 17 #MAHA scgcorp.com/jointnih-fdanr…

I am biased, but this is a great discussion of the research Javier Gonzalez is leading at Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism Features some discussion of our 12-week RCT earlier this year sciencedirect.com/science/articl… and more exciting studies to come!



Are you being bombarded with messages telling you that physical activity won’t increase energy expenditure because it is constrained? Here is our little piece on this topic for The Conversation . Javier Gonzalez theconversation.com/exercise-does-…

New PhD opportunity in nutrition and metabolism at University of Bath - closing date 31st March. Come and join Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism! Javier Gonzalez Francoise Koumanov Jean-Philippe Walhin findaphd.com/phds/project/t…


HOW ACCURATE IS YOUR GLUCOSE MONITOR? Our latest paper shows that a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) can overestimate blood glucose, and the size of this bias varies by person and the meal/beverage ingested… see below for more ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-… American Journal of Clinical Nutrition


Short video from The Associated Press on our quest to unravel the mechanisms of ultra-processed foods NIH Clinical Center NIDDK apnews.com/video/inside-t…


Podcast: The science behind the keto diet Guardian Science theguardian.com/science/audio/… cell.com/cell-reports-m… Aaron Hengist, PhD Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism


New exciting funded PhD studentship opportunity with West Ham United Javier Gonzalez Tania Griffin David Johnson and myself looking and nutritional behaviour, diet, and injury in academy players please RT ⚽️🍲🤕 CHi2PS Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism University of Bath ://tinyurl.com/37kwzphr

Excited to be starting this new study on ketogenic diets and ketone supplements bath.ac.uk/projects/the-k… Sophie Russell Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism


For >20 years obesity was thought to be associated with reduced dopamine receptors in brain reward regions. Now, a big study by Valerie L. Darcey, PhD, MS, RD shows that this may be have been an artifact (top figure panel) due to brain dopamine tone being positively associated with body fat (bottom).


“We experienced what amounts to censorship and controlling of the reporting of our science,” Dr. Hall said. I appreciate Kevin Hall sharing his difficult story for my article, and his longstanding commitment to communicating science to the public. nytimes.com/2025/04/16/wel…


Please share this job opportunity to join our team: linkedin.com/jobs/view/4234… This post is related to the KETO-GENETIC Project: bath.ac.uk/projects/the-k… A flourishing collaboration between University of Bristol Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism and Imperial College London funded by Medical Research Council
