Refeeding therapy – in which anorexia patients are hospitalized and fed a prescribed diet to induce weight gain – is the most successful current therapy. However, the optimal number of calories, nutritional content, and pacing of this therapy remain largely unexplored.

A 2021 report, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by a research team based in Dresden, Germany, investigates the plasma lipidome in anorexia patients before and after refeeding therapy and compared to control patients. The results suggest that lipid metabolism is altered in anorexia patients.

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