Are the health-benefit claims from intermittent fasting backed up by scientific evidence? John Trepanowski, postdoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Prevention Research Center,weighs in.
Everybody eats. It's one of the most basic, universal activities there is. Yet, across cultures — and even between individuals — our views of food …
Receiving a diagnosis of celiac disease can be pretty daunting. The most common inherited autoimmune disease, celiac disease causes a lifelong inability to tolerate gluten, …
How do you combine internal medicine, nutrition, culinary arts and public policy into a single career? Ask Michelle Hauser, MD, who has integrated her eclectic training into …
Larry Chu, MD, and I have a few things in common. We’ve both been carrying around excess weight, and the judgments that come with it, …
Today, U.S. News and World Report released their 2016 ranking of the best diets. For their story on healthy eating for teenagers, Neville Golden, MD, division chief of …
When I was a kid, the ghosts and ghouls of Halloween were the scariest things around. Now that I'm older, the terrors of Halloween have …
“Our children are in trouble because we’ve outsourced the job of feeding them,” says Stanford child nutrition expert Maya Adam, MD. To tackle the problem, …
On this morning’s KQED’s morning radio show, Forum, several doctors including Stanford’s Bryant Lin, MD, discussed how diabetes is affecting the health of millions of …
To reduce obesity rates, cardiovascular risk and chronic diseases, ditch calorie counting and instead emphasize the nutritional content of foods. That's the message from a …
According to a recent report, the United States is one of the most wasteful countries in the world. Up to 40 percent of American food is thrown in …
Nearly 70 percent of Americans ages 20 or older are overweight or obese, including Larry Chu, MD, a Stanford anesthesiologist and executive director of Medicine …
Imagine you’re thrown into wild ocean waters, battered by waves until you can’t tell which way is up. Your only chance of survival is to …
Mushrooms and tomatoes, veggies that are often reviled by preschoolers, star in a new app designed by a Stanford graduate student that aims to involve …
Food words trending in today's newspapers could help predict a country's obesity rates in three years, according to findings recently published in the journal BMC Public …
Are you willing to sample chocolate-covered silkworm pupae? What about blood sausage or, for the vegetarians among us, some shoo-fly pie (one of my personal favorites)? …
