What is Bifidus Regularis? » bbc http://whatisbifidusregularis.org Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:48:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 BBC Radio 4 Food Programme on legislation for health claims for foods http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/2010/03/23/bbc-radio-4-food-programme-on-legislation-for-health-claims-for-foods/ http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/2010/03/23/bbc-radio-4-food-programme-on-legislation-for-health-claims-for-foods/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:40:11 +0000 admin http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/?p=121 The Food Programme looks at new legislation controlling how food companies can make health claims for their products. There’s a segment in there about a research group who look at prebiotics and probiotics, particularly yoghurts, which is funded by the food industry. Note how, when he talks about the benefits of strains of bifidus, the…

]]> The Food Programme looks at new legislation controlling how food companies can make health claims for their products. There’s a segment in there about a research group who look at prebiotics and probiotics, particularly yoghurts, which is funded by the food industry. Note how, when he talks about the benefits of strains of bifidus, the researcher almost exlcusively talks about prebiotics, not probiotics.

The Food Programme – Beetroot and Health Legislation

What are prebiotics?  Find out on the probiotics, prebiotics and intestinal flora page.

]]> http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/2010/03/23/bbc-radio-4-food-programme-on-legislation-for-health-claims-for-foods/feed/ 0 Probiotics may be useful in some medical settings, and may be extremely harmful in others http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/2009/11/19/probiotics-may-be-useful-in-some-medical-settings-and-may-be-extremely-harmful-in-others/ http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/2009/11/19/probiotics-may-be-useful-in-some-medical-settings-and-may-be-extremely-harmful-in-others/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:35:50 +0000 admin http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/?p=94 BBC Radio 4′s Case Notes talks to Chakravarthi Rajkumar, Professor of Geriatrics and Stroke Medicine at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, who has a special interest in the use of probiotics to reduce some of the unwanted side effects of antibiotics in his elderly patients.

Marnie Chesterton reports from Utrect in the Netherlands, where trials…

]]> BBC Radio 4′s Case Notes talks to Chakravarthi Rajkumar, Professor of Geriatrics and Stroke Medicine at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, who has a special interest in the use of probiotics to reduce some of the unwanted side effects of antibiotics in his elderly patients.

Marnie Chesterton reports from Utrect in the Netherlands, where trials using probiotics on patients with severe acute pancreatitis had some worrying results.

Listen to the programme here

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