Cholesterol levels improve with weight loss, healthy fat-rich diet

Weight loss programs that provide healthy fats, such as olive oil in the Mediterranean diet, or a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet have similar impacts on pound-shedding, research shows.

Polycystic kidney disease: a diet dividend

What if polycystic kidney disease (PKD) could be combatted with a strategy as simple as dieting?

Keeping immune cells quiet on a diet?

A population of suppressive T cells in the small intestines of mice prevents immune responses to solid foods, a new study finds.

Dietary changes may help postpone dialysis in patients with chronic kidney disease

A vegetarian very low-protein diet supplemented with ketoanalogues may slow disease progression.

To burn sugar or not to burn sugar: How eggs store fuel for embryo development

Links between metabolism and the development of eggs may hold answers about infertility, IVF treatment.