Gut Health: You Are What You Eat

A study from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Cleveland Clinic warns of the link between a western diet and the immune system. The research published in Cell Host & Microbe states that foods high in fat and sugar negatively affect the Paneth cells.

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Abdominal Pain from a Western Diet

Colitis is a major health problem in the United States. A Science Translational Medicine article states that mice fed a diet high in sugar had aggravated colitis. While high-fat diets may trigger inflammatory bowel disease, the role of sugar has been controversial, according to Hasan Zaki, PhD, lead...

Food and Genes, Genes and Food

Healing—possibly up to 80%—comes from factors outside of what we usually do in the clinic or hospital. The primary determinants of health involve social, environmental, lifestyle, and complementary medicine factors that few clinicians learn to deliver. Patients, through diet, can combat some chronic...

How Healing Works: Patients Have More Control Than They Think

Healing—possibly up to 80%—comes from factors outside of what practitioners usually do in the clinic or hospital. Patients, through diet, can combat some chronic pain and fight some genetic factors. Most people don’t realize that what they eat influences their pain. What else should patients be...

Western Diet Linked to Potentially Painful Psoriasis

Newswise — A Western diet rich in fat and sugar may lead to inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis, a study by UC Davis Health researchers has found.

The study, published today in Journal of Investigative Dermatology, suggests that dietary components, rather than obesity itself, may lead to...