Health Topics – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Millions of Americans have dry eye, a troubling and sometimes serious condition affecting the parts of the eye that are in contact with our external environment. Lauren Gormley, a optometrist at Johns Hopkins, describes some of the known risk factors. …

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If you’ve been trying to manage your dry eyes yourself with the multitude of products available over the counter, you may be causing yourself more harm than good. That’s because dry eye may be a symptom of a number of …

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You’ve probably experienced the sensation that your eyes are dry. They may also be scratchy or sore. Lauren Gormley, an optometrist at Johns Hopkins, says for millions of Americans these sensations and more serious ones are a daily ordeal and …

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Cutting short the number of hours during the day when you consume food seems like it should result in weight loss, but that didn’t pan out in a recent study by Nisa Maruthur and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, where so …

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Simply restricting eating to fewer hours during the day won’t result in weight loss for many, a Johns Hopkins study by Nisa Maruthur, an internal medicine expert, and colleagues has shown. Maruthur says when she’s counseling people on weight loss …

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Fiber comprising a lot of an overall healthy diet may have resulted in weight loss for two groups of people in a recent study- those who ate only during a shortened period while they were awake, so-called time restricted eating …

Increasing fiber may be key to weight loss in a study of time restricted eating, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Is there any benefit at all to time restricted eating, or TRE, for losing weight when compared to a usual eating pattern? That’s the question addressed in a recent Johns Hopkins study headed by Nisa Maruthur, a primary care expert, …

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If you’re thinking of using time restricted eating, where you only consume food for a shortened part of your waking hours, for weight loss, results of a new study from Johns Hopkins may inform. Nisa Maruthur, a primary care physician, …

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Time restricted eating, or TRE, seems like it might help people lose weight, many studies in animal models suggested. So Nisa Maruthur, an internal medicine expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues designed a study to assess this strategy in people. …

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Will restricting how many hours while you’re awake you allow yourself to eat help you lose weight? So called time restricted eating looked promising based on some studies, so Nisa Maruthur, an internal medicine expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues …

What does a new study on time restricted eating tell us? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »