Fibre in Medical News

Better Weight Management Can be Achieved By Increased Intake Of Fibre & Fruits

Researchers from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, study the diet patterns in 52 normal weight people and 52 obese or overweight people and found// that the normal people generally ate more fruits and fibres than their obese counterparts. The study that was published in th...

Study finds no link between fibre and cancer risk

A comprehensive study challenges the one accepted truism of dietary research since the 1960s that a fiber-rich diet protects against colorectal cancer.// The latest analysis of evidence has shown that while those who consume food with high fibre content such as cereals, vegetables and fruit are...

Increase Cereal Fibre To Combat Atherosclerosis

New research findings elevate the role of fibres further by stating that cereal fibre and whole-grain products may slow atherosclerosis and plaque build-up in the arteries in postmenopausal women.// Previous studies linked dietary fibre, particularly cereal fibre, with a decreased risk of heart...

Too much fibre can aggrevate cancer

Giving fibre supplements to patients with a history of growths in their colon may actually increase rather than reduce the problem. Many doctors believe that most colorectal cancer develop out of polyps, or adenomas, which grow on the wall of the bowel. However, the latest research, conducted...

Aussie Scientists Claim Genetic Breakthrough In Dietary Fibre

Scientists from the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University have identified the genes, which control the amount of fibre in grains such as wheat and barley. With the stress being on eating a fibre-rich diet, // the Aussie researchers fell that this discovery would allow them to manipulate t...

Blood vessel bends and branches put the brakes on statins

...oundation in 1907, Imperial's contributions to society have included the discovery of penicillin, the development of holography and the foundations of fibre optics. This commitment to the application of research for the benefit of all continues today, with current focuses including interdisciplinary collab...

Leeds engineers developing bullet proof vests from cement

... University of Leeds are working on a new type of body armour made from cement. The new vests will combine super-strong cement with recycled carbon fibre materials to make a material tough enough to withstand most types of bullets. The cement vest project, still at the early research stage, is being ...

Revitalized Village Sparkles in the North Country

...de Coffee The Agency Insurance Stewart's Shop CFA Insurance Dollar General Kitco Family Dollar Tiny Tikes Trading Post fibre Junction Quilt Shop Heaton House B&B Inergy TJ Laundromat and Car Wash Kathy's Second Hand Shop Downtown Buildings Renovated:...

Semen quality depends upon antioxidants

...the couples with fertility problems coming to the clinic, the men with good semen quality ate more vegetables and fruit (more vitamins, folic acid and fibre and less proteins and fats) than those men with low seminal quality", explains Mendiola. "A healthy diet is not only a good way of avoiding illness...

European Prebiotics Market Diversifies Strongly Across New Application Sectors in Food and Beverage Industry, Finds Frost & Sullivan

...od and beverage products are attractive and extremely useful in a wide variety of applications, as they have properties for enhancing texture, general fibre provision and, most importantly, their primary market driver is their high functionality, which corresponds with the increasingly health-driven market...

Colon cancer and the microbes in your gut

... that a diet that maintains the health of the colon wall is also one that maintains general body health and reduces heart disease". "A diet rich in fibre and resistant starch encourages the growth of good bacteria and increases production of short chain fatty acids which lessen the risk of cancer, while...

Flax Council of Canada Announces GRAS Status Determined for Flax in U.S.

...panies can use the ruling as a springboard for their own applications; it should now be easier to obtain GRAS status for flax oil, flax lignan or flax fibre supplements, based on GRAS having been granted to whole and milled flax," said Barry Hall. Flax Canada 2015 is a federally chartered not-for-prof...

Food advertisements in your magazine: How healthy are they?

... found the food adverts were for products high in sugar and salt and low in fibre such as ready meals, sauces and confectionary," explains Dr Jean Adams, lec...ducts advertised were generally much higher in sugar and salt, and lower in fibre than the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations. The study publ...

ESC statement on the control of type 2 diabetes

... duration (six months) in 210 patients; a diet high in low-glycemic foods resulted in a modest decrease in HbA1c levels when compared to a high-cereal fibre diet. "The main finding of the study a significant increase of HDL levels and a greater reduction in the LDL/HDL ratio - may provide the rationale...

Frost & Sullivan Honours Redsense Medical With the 2008 European Hemodialysis Emerging Company of the Year Award

...emodialysis and may save the lives of many patients". The device consists of an alarm and a sensor patch. The sensor is connected to the alarm using fibre optic technology that sends signals alerting caregivers about potentially fatal blood loss. In this event, the patch smears blood on the sensor patch ...

Rapid wound healing

...-neutral and 100 percent bioresorbable. Once applied it remains in the body, where it gradually degrades without leaving any residues. Whats more, the fibre fleece provides the healthy cells around the edges of the wound with the structure they additionally need for a proper supply of growth-supporting nut...

JMR Electronics BlueStor(TM) Storage Array Empowers HoneyShed's Post Production Process

... a wide bandwidth, high performance expandable storage using a switched architecture that avoids costly storage bus bridges or components like SCSI or fibre Channel. The feature-rich direct attached or networked attached BlueStor(TM) solution utilizes off-the-shelf PCIe RAID cards from a variety of popular...

Discovery of a novel mechanism for the development of colon cancer

...ies have shown that several factors contribute to the development of this disease, such as high fat, red-meat diet, obesity and lack of vegetables and fibre in the diet. In the great majority of cases, colorectal cancer arises from an initially benign overgrowth of colonic lining, a so-called adenomato...

EMC Extends Innovation for VMware environments

...on application environments each and every time." Key product components of EMC's application solution capabilities include: -- iSCSI, NFS and fibre Channel storage configurations optimized for advanced VMware virtualization environments, including EMC Celerra(R) NS20 multi-protocol storage...

Health and Pension Benefits Provider Turns to Xiotech's TimeScale Replication Services to Protect Critical Data

... the spectrum of organizational information risk management. Xiotech's Magnitude line of midrange storage solutions include expandable and easy-to-use fibre Channel and iSCSI-based systems. Xiotech's Business Consulting Group provides a range of modular service offerings that integrate information risk man...

A chocolate cookie a day puts 20 pounds on an energetically-balanced kid in 4 years

... facilitate a lower intake because their mastication time is longer and, due to their volume, produce the filling sensation more quickly. Furthermore, fibre speeds intestinal transit time while slowing food absorption. All these data have been recently presented in the University of Granadas summer cours...

Now, Fibre-enriched Tasty Snacks in the Making

... A Kansas State University researcher is experimenting with ways to add fibre to the foods we love without changing what we like about our favourite snac...pes were ground back into flour, ready to use for baking. "The more fibre you add, the more the dough quality deteriorates. We're hoping this process...

Double Amputee Finishes Last, but Still Looks Forward to Beijing Olympics

...car Pistorius finished last on a rain-soaked track at the British Grand Prix race, held in Sheffield on Sunday night . He runs with carbon fibre blades attached to both legs below the knees. To add to his discomfiture, he was also disqualified for having run outside his No. 8 lane. ...

New Imaging Technique may Help Detect Multiple Sclerosis Early

...-time in live mice using the technique. Myelin is the fatty sheath coating the axons, or nerve cells, that insulate and aid in efficient nerve fibre conduction. In diseases such as multiple sclerosis, the myelin sheath has been found to degrade. The researchers insist that the unprecedented...

No More Smelly Feet With Bamboo Socks

... Now there is a cure for smelly and pongy feet - special socks made of bamboo fibre . The item is the first eco-friendly sock to go on general sale, and experts have forecasted that it is the sign of one of the biggest revolut...

Rice Bran Reduces Risk of Intestinal Cancer

...the development of prostate or breast cancer, rice bran significantly retarded the development of intestinal adenomas. The effect was dependent on the fibre content of the bran. The dose we used translates into approximately 200g rice bran per day in humans. We believe a promising area of future research w...

Diabetes and the Magic Beans

...nne Garton of the Soya Protein Association:Soy fits in well to a healthy balanced diet which is important in preventing diabetes – low in fat, high in fibre and a good source of complex carbohydrates. Yet Libby Dowling, care adviser at Diabetes UK says that though the results are interesting, more rese...

Combined Ingredients may Cut Cholesterol Levels

...ay for four weeks. The muesli was formulated to provide five grams of wheat fibre (control), five grams of oat beta-glucan, or five grams of oat beta-glucan ... g of sterols or stanols. Thus, our findings suggest that the water-soluble fibre beta-glucan reduces the efficacy of plant stanols." The researchers s...

A New Weapon Against Obesity

...do that - but we believe it could help." The fibre is called oligo fructose. "It's not a chemical or ... have found in a previous study with rats that the fibre increases the levels of a satiety hormone called g...dent Jill Parnell found that consuming the natural fibre helped the rats to significantly reduce their food...

High-fibre Diets can Bust Breast Cancer

... High fibre diets have always been linked to better health and...their energy from high protein foods and had a low fibre and vitamin c intake. Most significantly it was seen that those women who ate more than 30 g of fibre per day as against 20g or less, halved their risk ...

Indian American have Genetically Engineered Edible Cottonseed

... by an Indian American scientist have genetically engineered toxin-free cottonseeds, potentially unlocking a large source of nutrition. // Cotton fibre continues to be a globally vital textile crop. The leftover cottonseeds are a high source of protein, but the presence of the toxic chemical gossypol ...

Cereal Bars Slammed for More Sugar Than Sweet Snacks

...ldren, would be classified as "high in sugar" under the Food Standards Agency's traffic light labeling scheme, a nutritious-looking Kellogg's Fruit 'n fibre Bar contained more sugar (10g) than a chocolate Penguin bar (9.7g). according to Which? researchers. Cereals bars like Nesquik Cereal and Milk...

Basis for Nerve fiber Damage in Multiple Sclerosis Discovered

... Researchers have discovered the main culprit for nerve fibre damage in multiple sclerosis, which is triggered by the body's own immune system, which is vital for early diagnosis // and evolving improved treatmen...

Nanotech Wipes for biohazard detection

...highly trained to use it, and it could be activated for whatever you want to find,’ said Margaret Frey, the Lois and Mel Tukman Assistant Professor of fibre Science and Apparel Design at Cornell. ‘So if you’re working in a meat-packing plant, for instance, you could swipe it across some hamburger and q...

Heart Tick for Fast Foods in Australia

... Ms Anderson said, "A tick meal will have to meet tough nutrition standards for the size of the meal, saturated and trans fat, salt and vegetable or fibre content." It would also be made mandatory for outlets to provide nutrition information panels. Ms Anderson says that the Heart Foundation woul...

Glycemic Index Works For Diabetes Patients

...ndicators. Recent criticism of the GI has focused on unpredictable outcomes of blood glucose values in meals because of variations in fat, protein and fibre levels. "The good news it that the GI index works" says Wolever. "For sensible people it makes a lot of sense. It's simple proportional measure ...

International Food Standards Meet Set For Chiang Mai Bangkok

...issues to be discussed at the meeting include laying out conditions of food fibre and methodologies to find the volume of fibre in the food, according to Dr. Charal, adding that it would benefit Thailand...

India To Set Up A Faculty In Namibia

...ongoing implementation of the Pan-African project that seeks to bridge the digital divide and connect 53 nations of the African Union through an optic fibre project. A couple of memorandums of understanding are to be signed later. This will encourage India to play a more active role in joint explora...

Beans Devoid Of Flatulence Causing Compounds Would Soon Hit The Market

...compounds. Hence they boosted the natural fermentation process by adding L casei thereby reducing the indigestible wind-causing compounds. Soluble fibre was reduced by two thirds and the amount of raffinose, another flatulence-causing substance, by 88.6%. But the amount of insoluble fibre, which is has...

Risk Of Dementia May Be Reduced By Mediterranean Diet

... According to a new study, a Mediterranean diet with low saturated fat and high fibre content could reduce the risk of developing dementia. // The Mediterranean diet is a nutritional model inspired by the traditional dietary patter...