Meaghan Kavanagh MSc PhD

Do artificially sweetened beverages have a role to play for SSB reduction and weight management? New article in AJCN suggests replacing SSB with ASB may ⬇️ weight and BMI. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… The findings complement our review on naïve and bias-adjusted methods in APNM

Perspective on PBMA "Our overall advice given current evidence would be: for those who eat pulses and minimally processed plant-foods, maintain these practices; consider PBMA as an option to reduce meat consumption." 🌍 @ejcneditor Shared link: rdcu.be/e9TDJ

📢Change analysis in Harvard cohorts looking at diet pop Each +3 servings/wk in ASB intake was associated with −0.18kg weight change (CI: −0.26, −0.11) over 4yr intervals. While water is the ideal choice, ASB offer a solution for SSB consumers. 👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New Study 🙌 The Not-Just Supper Club was perceived by community members as beneficial across psychosocial and nutritional domains and supported food literacy and plant-forward dietary choices 👇👇 mdpi.com/3762690 #mdpinutrients via @Nutrients_MDPI #Nutrition #Cancer

UFP & Behavioral Outcomes in Canadian Children.Each 10%⬆️in energy from UPF was asso with⬆️CBCL internalizing (β = 0.81), externalizing (β = 0.47), total (β = 0.64) scores. Subs 10% energy from UPF with MPF was asso with⬇️(β = –0.91),(β = –0.49),(β = –0.70 jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Well written article by the CHILD Cohort Study🤰 Grateful for the opportunity to analyze their robust cohort data and to all the participating families who contributed 🏆🙌 Without them none of this research is possible!

Higher intake of ultraprocessed foods at age 3 years was associated with more adverse behavioral and emotional symptoms by age 5 years, while replacing ultraprocessed with minimally processed foods was associated with better outcomes. ja.ma/4sqLF0k

"...even modest changes, such as adding a piece of fruit or swapping a sugary drink for water, may support children’s emotional and behavioural development over time." temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/ultra-pro…

📢 New from @KozetaMiliku's lab: ⬆️ UPFs are associated with ⬆️ reported behavioural challenges in 🇨🇦 kids. Our findings are a starting point for more research on UPFs and child behaviour 🍽️🧠 🔗jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Thanks to Howard (Zheng) Chen & @CHILDSTUDY

New umbrella review (2025): When bias and reverse causation are properly addressed 👉no-calorie sweeteners are not associated with increased cardiometabolic risk 👉In RCTs, replacing sugar with sweeteners leads to lower energy intake + modest weight loss pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41428417/

Why do we wait until a T2D diagnosis threshold is reached? Prediabetes Remission Halves MI and HF Risk, The Lancet Study medscape.com/viewarticle/pr…

In our recent umbrella review of trials and cohorts we show that the methods really matter esp. when researching sweeteners 👇Check out the full paper cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/ap…

Secondary analysis on Vegan Diet, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Cumulative Energy Demand published in JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Check out the NY Times coverage of the Portfolio Diet This Little-Known Diet Can Actually Lower Your Cholesterol nytimes.com/2025/11/04/wel…

From the discovery of insulin to the discovery of GLP-1, Toronto continues to shape the future of medicine 👉 temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/setback-l…

The benefit of Ozempic (semaglutide) for protection from major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) is independent of weight loss magnitude and baseline adiposity, likely related to the GLP-1 anti-inflammatory effect thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Join this fireside chat with Dr. Laura Chiavaroli and Sean McKelvey to discuss therapeutic medicines, dietary interventions and medicines to manage Type 2 diabetes and their role in Ontario's primary care strategy. Register: mito2i.ca/a-deeper-under… @uoftmedicine

Comparing glucose-lowering meds and CVD outcomes among 296,676 US adults with T2D. Are GLP-1RAs truly the champions for CVD? 🫀 Read the new paper to see what they found👇👇 jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Good news: except for those who think lowering cholesterol is averse to the brain health - lipid Rx lessens AD risk - doi.org/10.1002/alz.70… @nationallipid @society_eas @ASPCardio @escardio @atherosociety @MenopauseOrg @FamilyHeartFdn @fhpatienteurope #dementia

@Drlipid @nationallipid @society_eas @ASPCardio @escardio @atherosociety @MenopauseOrg @FamilyHeartFdn @fhpatienteurope Great share, thank you! I especially enjoy that they including ischemic heart disease just to reiterate what we all know so well. Curious, what do you think is going on with Alzheimer's in this plot?