Archive for July, 2010
Popular Food Additive Inulin Can Cause Stomach Ache
Have you ever wondered what is the thing attracting you to eat more chocolate bars and various snacks? The reply is Inulin, a carbohydrate fiber that stimulates so called ‘good bacteria’ in the colon and is able to cause body gases, flatulence, bloating and diarrhea. Naturally Inulin can be found in bananas, onions, garlic and wheat.
A negative outcome may arise from consuming Inulin food too often. Its addictive nature causes gastrointestinal problems in the digestive body system. Joanne Slavin mold the University of Minnesota at St. Paul, station of food science and nutrition, has conveyed a study that involved healthy 26 men and women from 18 to 60 years old. In five weeks moment, once a week they were give breakfast with cream cheese bagel and orange juice.
The breakfast meal was served on an empty stomach without a previous night dinner. The orange juice restricted 5 to 10 grams dose of normal inulin products – shorter-chain oligofructose and native inulin; or a placebo.
Over two days the participants were asked weather they have felt any symptoms from that type of fiber consumptions; symptoms like nausea, flatulence, diarrhea, gas, GI rumbling and constipation. Results came in with mild symptoms from those that had inulin in their nutrition, mainly from the 10 grams of oligofructose dosage. The most common symptom was flatulence – yeah, pretty embarrassing!
From the research it has come to the conclusion that consuming 5 grams of “sweet” inulin and 10 grams of native inulin a day are tolerable for healthy society. With a target of reducing calories and fat in food products; and increasing the amount of fiber and flavor; food production has found a way of chemically structuring inulin in order to perform its “addictive seduction” role.
High calorie food tends to be more addictive soon after a normal nutritious type of fruit. citizens chose Chocolate bars by fiber bars. The taste of a sweet chocolate bar works great for the appetite, reaching a point that a fiber bar is unable achieve. But a fiber bar is far more nutritious and healthy soon after a high calorie chocolate bar. The heart and stomach don’t have to work overtime in order for fiber to be distributed through the blood flow.
To start fighting the addictive nature of products containing inulin, humans need to start with making firm decisions about what to consume. It is always difficult at the beginning when you change a habit. Start slow and finish strong.
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Is Low Quality of Sleep Linked to Weight Gain?
The human body has a necessity of sleep, quite logically, in order for it to operate properly. You don’t want to ‘overheat’ the body’s mechanism by avoiding instance mandatory for rest with sleep included. During those approximate 7 hours of sleep there is a possibility of gaining weight, but not much and not overnight though.
A study in Finland that was made by 7.300 folks among the age of 40 to 60 years showed that women are more likely to gain weight due to less sleeping moment. The survey lasted 2 years and gave the results that women who had problems falling a sleep and thereupon waking up just couple of hours later, gained about 11 pounds.
The situation is entirely different about men. They seem to not gain any weight at all whether they have problems with sleeping. that is probably due to the fact that the male body has a faraway history of physical strength and mobile capabilities. Since men, statistically, are more included in sports and activities, their body hardly waits for night to fall in order to get its proper rest.
It still stay unclear how could the male body stay unaffected by the sleeping problem. Probably considering the number of men surveyed in the study is three times less than women (women 5.700 and men 1.300). But still, the number of men gaining weight in that group is nearly zero.
However, many factors come in to play when it comes to weight loss or weight gain during sleep. The normal day of sleep is 7 hours in a 24 hour day. Many nutritionists recommend not eating before going to bed; in fact, not to eat after 7 PM. whether you eat before sleep, the body must work to process the food. No quality sleep comes from a full stomach when the body is working and your eyes and brain try to sleep.
So sleeping under these circumstances can cause weight gain in date, but not overnight. The problem is that instead of waking up felling rested, you will wake up even more tired than when you went to bed.
Shifting the instance of sleep, cutting the date of sleep, even continuing the day of sleep affects the metabolism and the appetite. Probably the worst combination is when you can’t fall a sleep on an empty stomach, which is very normal.
People in that situation must have a bite before going to bed, and soon after wake up the next AM feeling very tired. Even whether they sleep for 9 hours they still need more moment to sleep in order to have a fresh start.
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Cereal for Breakfast a Good Thing for Your Weight?
There are many proverbs in the world about getting healthy nutrition during the day. The most popular one being: “Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a merchant, and eat dinner like a poor man.” It is far better not to skip breakfast than to think that dawn cereal containing more sugar is poor for your health.
Getting up in the doesn’t just start the day; it plus starts your activity after a good nights rest. So, having a good nutritious breakfast cereal, full with healthy fibers, is great boosting fuel for the body.
In the dawn, when citizens are preparing to go to work or school, there isn’t much duration for cooking; and the easiest way to ‘eat like a king’ is a bowl full of cereal with milk. Cereals are full of nutritious healthy fibers low in fat, minerals, and vitamins. They fill the body with energy that it needs all through the day.
Now, there are some that question the nutritional characteristics of good cereal meal, stating that some cereals contain more sugar than usual. Thus, giving more answers to the appetite next the nutritional body needs.
Cereals with a little more sugar is not that dangerous at all, not to the small children either. The logic of it is that when you metabolize proteins and fibers in the , you will definitely spend it all through the daily activities. Skipping breakfast is more dangerous next that.
Almost 10.000 children within the age of 9 and 18 participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) amidst 1999 and 2006. 20 percent of children amoung 9 to 13 years old and third of children amidst 14 to 18 years old are ‘breakfast skippers’.
Why do children skip breakfast? The number one reason for it is weight. Children think that skipping breakfast will lower their chances of getting fat or lose fat. Skipping breakfast makes quite the opposite. Having lunch on an empty stomach makes the body put calories and proteins ‘in stash’; keeping it there to the next day it is left without breakfast. The car won’t drive whether it has no fuel in it. The same goes for the body.
Another reason why children don’t have cereal breakfast in the AM is the fact that some families have low-income status and cannot afford cereals every day. that situation is more common in the minority families.
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Mother-to-child HIV transmission rate falling
Transmission of HIV to children before or at birth has dropped dramatically around the country in the last decade since the advent of dominant new therapies. That certainly is true for Florida, where each year, fewer than 10 babies are born with the disease despite the fact that more than 600 HIV-positive women each year, on average, give birth……..
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Brain alterations in patients with irritable bowel syndrome
A large academic study has demonstrated structural changes in specific brain regions in female patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a condition that causes pain and discomfort in the abdomen, along with diarrhea, constipation or both. A collaborative effort amidst UCLA and Canada’s McGill University, the study appears in the recent issue of the journal Gastroenterology…….
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Grapefruit with Each Meal and Drop Pounds?
I read something very interesting the other day. It was about a study that showed that public who ate a half of a grapefruit with every meal lost about 3.5 pounds in three months that were trying to lose weight. Now granted, the piece I read actually didn’t give specifics, like whether these citizens were eating light all the way around, but I assume they were. I plus made the assumption that the grapefruit sort of helped to satiate these folks when eaten with every meal.
A sort of “built in dessert”, whether you will, that helped them feel like they had all their fundamental fat, salt and sweets all in one meal, and therefore made them not crave any of the three major flavors after they were done. Grapefruit has nearly always been considered a “diet fruit”. It has enlarged been speculated that grapefruits possess strange properties that help us to burn fat more readily and may additionally stabilize our blood sugar, which helps us to not eat as much food.
It helps us not eat as much food, or even crave it all through the day considering instead of eating more to stabilize our blood sugar, we can just have stable blood sugar by eating grapefruit with our meals.
Grapefruits apparently help you to burn fat and stabilize insulin levels considering they lower your insulin levels after you consume a meal. Insulin spikes are known for causing cravings and increases in appetite, and are a major reason that public tend to by eat. That and a pesky little hormone called ghrelin, whose properties are just now being studied and better understood, are the major factors behind bingeing, by eating, and craving the worst kinds of food for weight management.
In other words, whether someone could find the magic potion to kick ghrelin out of the picture, and minimize it’s effect on our bodies, would become instantly wealthy. Who knows, perhaps one of those new prescription weightloss meds that are going through the FDA in the next year or two for approval will fit that bill!
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New Prescription Weight Loss Meds Expected
Well, it looks like there may be some interesting prescription weight loss drug offerings brewing right now. That is, whether they can pass the rigorous FDA scrutiny they are about to endure. The FDA has been very careful about weight loss drugs in specific, particularly after the Phen-Fen debacle, where there were even deaths correlated with the drug, and additionally since multiple other prescription weight loss drugs were either banned or made to put serious warning labels on them after they were associated with serious, and potentially life threatening side effects.
There has not been a new weight loss drug released in several years, and part of it may be considering companies know how hard it is to get one pushed through the FDA for approval to mass market, and they don’t want to waste the R&D date and money on developing new drugs for losing weight whether the FDA is just going to shoot them down. That equals a lot of wasted date and money for drug companies.
Some of the drugs that are vying for approval actually sound quite promising. That is, whether they don’t come with the nasty side effects that so many of their predecessors have been rife with. One drug is an anti convulsant that is known to suppress the appetite. Yikes, an anti convulsant drug, just to lose a few pounds!? That one is actually Topomax, which is sold by Johnson and Johnson. I believe there is another one that is based on that view that is going through approval now too.
One targets the center of the brain that controls appetite and metabolism, and is supposed to suppress the appetite while additionally helping to raise the metabolism. Another drug vying for approval and the possibility of blockbuster sales is one that combines a drug used for addictions to alcohol and drugs, combined with an antidepressant. The concept behind that one is mostly to suppress hunger to reach the end goal of weight loss.
The projections for sales for any one of these new drugs would be phenomenal. folks are hungry (no pun intended) for new prescription weight loss drugs like Xenical, which was one of the last ones approved, which helps you to get rid of excess fat via flushing it out of your system. Alli, it’s less potent sister drug which does not require a prescription, has plus been a big seller, but citizens are looking for ways to lose weight that target appetite first. Should be an interesting outcome! I’ll keep you posted.
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