Nutrition News

May is Mediterranean Diet Month, according to the American Diabetes Association’s Facebook page.

SAN DIEGO — A series of cooking courses helped patients with celiac disease improve adherence to a gluten-free diet and their quality of life, according to data from a pilot study presented at Digestive Disease Week.

SAN DIEGO — The Crohn’s Disease Exclusion Diet appeared to be an effective and well-tolerated, first-line therapy for children with mild-to-moderate Crohn’s disease, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week.

SAN DIEGO — High-dose vitamin D treatment did not help reduce incidence of postoperative recurrence in patients with Crohn’s disease, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week.

SAN DIEGO — Over the next four days, the gastroenterology community will convene in the San Diego Convention Center for Digestive Disease Week 2019, the specialty’s largest scientific conference.

Adults without obesity who ate a diet of ultra-processed foods for 2 weeks consumed on average 500 kcal more per day and gained an average 0.9 kg vs. when they ate a diet of unprocessed foods for 2 weeks, according to findings published in Cell Metabolism.

In this episode, registered dietitian at Cedars-Sinai, Kelly Issokson, gives a basic overview of the role of RDs in clinical practice, nutrition pearls, useful diets like low-FODMAP and EEN, and dispels some of the current snake oil being touted in the wellness space.   

Adolescents with severe obesity were 27% more likely than adults with obesity to experience type 2 diabetes remission 5 years after undergoing Roux en Y gastric bypass, as well as 51% more likely to experience hypertension remission vs. adults, according to findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Patients who followed a Mediterranean low-carbohydrate diet showed significant reductions in hepatic fat content beyond visceral adipose tissue changes that correlated with improvements in cardiometabolic parameters, according to a study published in Journal of Hepatology.

Researchers successfully engrafted microbiota to patients with obesity using stool from lean donors, giving them optimism about the future of fecal microbiota transplantation as a treatment for obesity.