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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.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 ...

Determine the incidence of refeeding syndrome, defined by the presence of hypophosphatemia in very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) compared with those ...

Treatment settings and offers for people with AN and extreme underweight (BMI <13 kg/m 2) are scarce. The described detailed treatment protocol in a PICU setting is potentially lifesaving for these ...

After 59 days, California inmates have ended their hunger strike. The prisoners had been protesting what they called aggressive use of solitary confinement, which kept some prisoners in isolation for ...