A University of California, Riverside preclinical study is shedding light on a long-observed but poorly understood phenomenon: chronic cannabis users tend to have lower body weight and a reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes, despite the drug’s well-known tendency to increase appetite. Nicholas DiPatrizio A team led by Nicholas V. DiPatrizio, a professor of biomedical sciences at the UCR School of Medicine, set out to investigate this apparent paradox. While cannabis is commonly associated with increased […]

Shaina Alexandria, PhD, assistant professor of Preventive Medicine in the Division of Biostatistics and Informatics, was a co-author of the study published in Nature Medicine.  A time-restricted eating program — consuming all meals between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. without tracking calorie intake — promoted greater weight loss in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) than no intervention, according to a randomized controlled trial published in Nature Medicine.   The results suggest time-restricted eating can promote weight loss and potentially alleviate symptoms in women with PCOS, an endocrine disorder that affects nearly 1 in 5 women of childbearing […]

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