Food

SAN DIEGO — In a Healio video exclusive, Andres Acosta, MD, PhD, outlines research presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022 that focused on the relationship between gastric function and the regulation of food intake.

There is overwhelming evidence demonstrating the impact that food has on health, according to a report from the Center for Food as Medicine and the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center.

In this Healio video series, which focuses on cultural competency in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, Neha D. Shah, MPH, RD, CNSC, CHES, discusses the food culture in South Asia and the associated challenges when treating IBD.

The development and resolution of food protein-induced allergic proctocolitis in the infant gut microbiome highlights the underlying role of bacterial taxa in the pathophysiology of the allergy, according to a presentation.

In the past few months, one in five parents reported that their children ate fast food more often, a recent poll showed.

Young infants may develop food allergies due to frequent moisturization of the skin through transcutaneous sensitization, according to a population-based, randomized study.

Data from oral food challenges show almond and hazelnut can be challenged more aggressively, whereas cashew and walnuts should be challenged more conservatively, according to study results.

Children exposed to persistently high levels of ambient grass pollen may have an increased risk for food sensitization but not allergy, according to data presented at the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Hybrid Congress.

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

Study results support the use of microbiota-directed complementary food prototype as a dietary supplement for young children with moderate acute malnutrition.