Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID): What to know

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a recently recognized eating disorder. People with ARFID stop growing and gaining weight as they do not eat enough calories.

Does the hCG diet work?

The hCG diet combines using a human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) hormone supplement and restricting food intake to 500 calories a day. However, hCG weight loss products are illegal in the United States, and there is no evidence to show that the diet is safe or effective. Learn more here.

Could fasting help to treat Huntington’s disease?

Restricting food intake to a set time period every day could help to clear the brain of a protein that causes Huntington’s disease, new research suggests.

Should you feed a cold and starve a fever? Study investigates

Researchers find that food intake can have a positive or negative impact on infections, depending on whether the infection is bacterial or viral.

Children’s preferences for sweeter and saltier tastes are linked to each other

Scientists from the Monell Chemical Senses Center have found that children who most prefer high levels of sweet tastes also most prefer high levels of salt taste and that, in general, children prefer sweeter and saltier tastes than do adults. These preferences relate not only to food intake but also to measures of growth and can have important implications for efforts to change children’s diets.

‘Stomach clock’ limits food intake to specific times, study suggests

Researchers say they have uncovered the first evidence that nerves situated in the stomach follow a circadian rhythm and limit a person’s food intake to certain times throughout the day. This is according to a study published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

Feeling Full During Weight Loss With The Right Snack

Healthy snacks that promote a feeling of fullness (satiety) may reduce the amount of food intake at subsequent meals and limit overall food consumption, according to a presentation at the 2013 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Food Expo in Chicago®…

Free Smartphone App Aids Weight Loss

Their study is the first to evaluate a smartphone app as the sole method for monitoring weight loss, with researchers creating My Meal Mate to trial against similar products for monitoring food intake, an online food diary and the traditional paper version…

Fructose Does Not Increase Food Intake Or Impact Weight, Extensive Research Demonstrates

A new comprehensive review, recently published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, concludes that fructose does not increase food intake or impact body weight or blood triglycerides in overweight or obese individuals…