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A new study led by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and the Stanford University School of Medicine indicates that patients get well faster by providing more calories and increasing them quickly.
The number of primary Spanish-speaking Latinx families in the San Francisco Bay Area who cannot afford to eat balanced meals and go to bed hungry has more than doubled since the pandemic, according to a new study by UCSF.
The study found no significant difference between the two groups in total weight loss or in other health markers.
The researchers uncovered efforts to sell to minorities by drawing from corporate papers such as memos, financial reports and company newsletters that are housed in the UCSF Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library.
Three in four patients with anorexia nervosa make a partial recovery. But just 21 percent make a full recovery, a milestone that is most likely to signal permanent remission.
We commonly think a full stomach is what tells us to stop eating, but it may be that a stretched intestine plays an even bigger role in making us feel sated.
Adolescents and young adults with anorexia nervosa whose weight is in the healthy, overweight or obese ranges face similar cardiovascular and other health complications as their counterparts with low BMI.
UCSF lab mapped out the multistage biochemical pathway by which different strains of bacteria in gut contribute to digesting inert and otherwise indigestible lignans into useful nutrients.
