In 2025, Anam Farzand and a team from Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin reviewed how food ads push junk food high in fat, sugar, and salt, influencing people to eat more unhealthy stuff. They looked at studies showing kids see 4,000 food ads a year, making them crave sweets and snacks, while low-income groups face 80% of ads for bad foods, leading to weight gain and health problems.

In 2025, Lucas Santos and a team from Brazil studied Wistar rats fed a high-fat diet from weaning to mimic obesity. They split them into four groups: standard diet, standard diet with extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO), high-fat diet, and high-fat diet with EVOO. They checked body weight, blood sugar, satiety, and brain inflammation markers in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus.

A 1966 study revealed that linoleic acid (LA), the main omega-6 fat in seed oils like soybean and sunflower, lingers in your body’s fat tissue with a half-life of ~680 days (~1.9 years). Men switching to high-LA diets saw adipose LA rise from 11% to 32% over 5 years, showing it takes years to fully reflect dietary shifts.

This statement by Dr. Gabrielle Lyon isn’t just catchy—it’s scientifically sound. A 2024 Scientific Reports study analyzing nearly 11,000 adults found that a high lean mass to visceral fat ratio was tied to up to 88% lower risk of type 2 diabetes and significantly fewer cases of high blood pressure and abnormal cholesterol levels.

A 2025 study in Frontiers in Nutrition found that people with more muscle and less visceral fat had up to 61% lower risk of kidney stones. The link held steady even after adjusting for age, BMI, and health status.