Diet

Increased consumption of processed foods correlated with the development of inflammatory bowel disease, according to a presentation at Digestive Disease Week.

Rising rates of ultra-processed food consumption correlated with an increased risk for Crohn’s disease, according to a presentation at Digestive Disease Week.

American Institute for Cancer Research awarded more than $1 million worth of grants to fund research designed to improve understanding of how diet, nutrition, physical activity and body weight affect cancer prevention and survivorship.

Researchers found an inverse association between spinach consumption and the risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, according to BMC Gastroenterology.

In this video, April Armstrong, MD, MPH, of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, discussed the potential connections between diet and psoriasis severity.

Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, FADCES, talks with Kelly Toups, MLA, RD, LDN, director of nutrition at Oldways, about benefits of whole grains and other cultural foods for people with diabetes.

A vegetarian diet was associated with reduced risk for ischemic heart disease mortality compared with a nonvegetarian diet but had no effect on all-cause and cerebrovascular mortality, researchers reported.

The diet quality of foods consumed at schools improved dramatically while diet quality of foods consumed from grocery stores, restaurants and worksites showed small to modest gains, researchers reported.  

Adherence to guideline-recommended physical activity or diet conferred benefits for cardiometabolic health later in life; however, adherence to both may confer the greatest risk reductions, researchers reported.

More than half of pediatric patients with eosinophilic esophagitis experienced histologic remission after going on a milk elimination diet, according to study results.