Nutrition and Fitness News

Families facing food insecurity had higher health care expenditures than those who were food secure, a recent study showed.

Intermittent fasting was associated with a lower risk for COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality and could be used as a complementary therapy to vaccination, according to researchers.

Data suggest reducing sodium limits on prepackaged foods to comply with new WHO benchmarks could prevent nearly 1,800 deaths and thousands of related diseases on a population level in Australia per year, researchers reported.

A free application that is designed to help people hit the recommended target of eating five portions of fruits and vegetables a day is now available for Android users.

The AAP on Monday released its first clinical guidance on obesity in 15 years, suggesting that physicians offer adolescents as young as age 12 years weight loss medication and evaluate teens for metabolic and bariatric surgery.

Participants in a weight-loss program with early time-restricted eating shifted their eating into a smaller window earlier in the day, but did not change frequency or amount of consumption, diet quality or other eating behaviors.

The 2022 International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes guidelines include updates on insulin delivery, psychological care and nutritional management for children, adolescents and young people with diabetes.

For the sixth year in a row, the Mediterranean diet has been named the best overall diet by nutritional experts from U.S. News & World Report, the company announced.

Adults with elevated serum sodium in middle age, a marker of inadequate fluid intake, were more likely to be biologically older than their chronological age and develop chronic diseases compared with adequately hydrated adults, data show.

Women with greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet had a nearly 30% lower risk for preeclampsia compared with women with lower adherence, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.