Nutrition News

Traditional dietary advice for irritable bowel syndrome had comparable efficacy to a diet low in fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols — or FODMAP — in improving gastrointestinal symptoms, according to data presented at UEG Week.

Early nasoenteric tube feeding was not superior to oral diet in reducing infection or morality rate in patients with acute pancreatitis who had high risk for complications, according to new research data.

The Food Network’s Sunny Anderson, who has been living with ulcerative colitis for the past 2 decades, has partnered with the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America and Lindsey Albenberg, DO, a gastroenterologist from the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, to launch Get Your Full Course, a web resource designed to provide patients with accurate information about diet and nutrition as an adjunct to therapies for managing inflammatory bowel disease.

Patients with stable HF and elevated levels of fasting plasma trimethylamine-N-oxide had an increased risk for all-cause mortality at 5 years, researchers reported in a new study.

Higher intake of dietary linoleic acid is associated with lower risk for CHD in a dose-response manner, according to results of a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.

Among infants at-risk for celiac disease, delayed introduction of dietary gluten was associated with delayed onset of disease, according to new research data.

The recent, rapid increase in the incidence and prevalence of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease suggests an environmental trigger for inflammatory bowel disease, one of which could potentially be dietary, according to a recently published review.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ion torrent sequencing indicated that a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids appeared to increase butyrate-producing bacteria and reduce bacteria that degrade genistein in the human gut microbiome, according to data presented at ICAAC 2014.

A group of physicians are questioning how well doctors can provide nutrition information and counseling to patients, particularly those with CVD, obesity and diabetes. In a paper published in the September issue of the American Journal of Medicine, the group calls for extensive and integrated nutritional education to become part of medical school curriculum at all stages.

Dietary sodium intake in excess of 2 g per day, as recommended by the WHO, was associated with 1.65 million deaths due to CV-related causes in 2010, according to a new report.