If you’ve been trying to lose weight and have been in a long-term calorie deficit, you will eventually reach a plateau. You will stop losing weight, despite continuing to eat fewer calories, and ...

A UT Southwestern Medical Center study in Nature Communications shows intermittent fasting’s longevity benefits depend on metabolic changes after eating resumes. Roundworm experiments revealed that ...

The purpose of carb refeeding is to prolong your adherence to your respective low carb diets. Unless you've been living under a rock, you must know about the ketogenic diet, which has been making news ...

Dear A.S.: Refeeding syndrome is a serious concern when someone who is dangerously thin begins eating again. I have seen this only in people with anorexia nervosa, and all the patients I have seen ...

Even if food aid reaches Gaza, Sudan and other famine zones, complications can arise in malnourished or starving people when they regain access to regular meals. Those complications can be fatal. As ...

New research suggests the biggest anti-aging benefit of intermittent fasting may happen after the fast ends—not during it.

The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) have a greater likelihood of developing ...