Staying Fit with Probiotics
Normally, when it comes to dieting and controlling food intake, additives or even perhaps putting more focus on liquids or water can help reduce the solid food we consume. Apparently there is one that can help people eat less through probiotic solutions suitable for food and nutraceutical applications which will trigger the consumer’s feeling of fullness. In this way food intake is likely to be reduced, thereby contributing to a healthy weight balance. The target population is slightly overweight to standard weight individuals who want to maintain a healthy weight balance.
A British analysis of 57 studies recently published in The Lancet (Whitlock 2009) concluded that even moderate obesity cuts life expectancy by about three years.
Chr. Hansen and the University of Copenhagen are collaborating on a groundbreaking weight management research project dubbed “ProSat”. The objective is to investigate the use of probiotics for weight control.
“This project makes use of a unique and sophisticated animal model to study satiety parameters,” explains Professor, Dr. Med. Sci Jens Juul Holst — an internationally renowned academic expert on gastro-intestinal hormones. “One possible mechanism of action for satiating probiotics is that they may cause a release of satiety inducing hormones from the gut. We are studying this directly in surviving segments of the small intestine from pigs which resemble humans very much in this respect,” Holst explains.
(Source) NPICenter
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