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ANNISTON, Ala., Jan. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- An exciting new dietary health product has been launched which promotes healthy digestion while strengthening the immune system. Stimflora is a prebiotic that stimulates the growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria that promote healthy digestion and reduce the toxins which are absorbed through the intestines. This differs from the more widely known probiotics which actually deliver active bacteria to the intestines. A prebiotic promotes...
PARSIPPANY, N.J., April 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- FiberChoice® chewable fiber supplements today launched the "Choices for Better Health" nationwide sweepstakes to support the simple ways that Americans can defend their health each day. The 28-day campaign lives on Twitter and encourages people to share the small, smart choices they make for overall health and wellness. Each day, FiberChoice® will select and provide funding toward one of the posted choices, in an effort to help...
We are what we eat, but who are "we"? New, high-powered genomic analytical techniques have established that as many as 1,000 different single-celled species coexist in relative harmony in every healthy human gut."For each human cell in your body there are 10 microbial cells, most of them living in the gut and helping us digest things we can't digest on our own," said Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the Stanford University...
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC), Berkeley, have successfully attached imaging probes to glycans "“ the sugar molecules that are abundant on the surfaces of living cells "“ in the embryos of zebrafish less than seven hours after fertilization. Glycans are key regulators of the processes that guide cell development, and zebrafish are a top vertebrate model organism of embryogenesis....
The plant that gave the world tequila contains a substance that seems ideal for use in a new genre of processed foods -- so-called "functional foods" -- with health benefits over and above serving as a source of nutrients, scientists reported yesterday at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Foods spiked with "fructans" from the agave plant may help protect against osteoporosis by boosting the body's absorption of calcium and could have other...
LONDON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ --The 2009 Frost & Sullivan European Digestive Health Ingredients Promising Ingredient of the Year Award is presented to Solvay S.A. (Solvay) for SOLACTIS(TM), an innovative prebiotic ingredient in the European digestive health ingredients market. The improved performance of SOLACTIS(TM) offers significant added value for new yoghurts, biscuits, beverages and similar products. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO) "Positioned as a...
HARRISBURG, Pa., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In a revolutionary healthcare finding, a peer-reviewed clinical study published in the British Journal of Nutrition (a Cambridge University Journal), clearly shows that Prebiotics reduce cholesterol and triglycerides, control body weight, and increase lifespan by 33%. The controlled clinical study was conducted on rats and showed that the rats fed prebiotics had an 80% survival rate to 24 months versus a 50% survival rate for the control group rats...
