What Is Bifidus Regularis? » probiotics http://whatisbifidusregularis.org Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:15:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Nature News – Gut study divides people into three types http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/2011/07/08/nature-news-gut-study-divides-people-into-three-types/ http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/2011/07/08/nature-news-gut-study-divides-people-into-three-types/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:07:55 +0000 Adrian Toll http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/?p=156 “Just as there are a few major blood types that divide up the world, so too, a study has found, there are just three types of gut-microbe populations. The result could help to pinpoint the causes of obesity and inflammatory bowel disease, and to personalize medicine.”

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“A person’s gut type might help to determine …

]]> “Just as there are a few major blood types that divide up the world, so too, a study has found, there are just three types of gut-microbe populations. The result could help to pinpoint the causes of obesity and inflammatory bowel disease, and to personalize medicine.”

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“A person’s gut type might help to determine whether people can eat all they like and stay slim, whether they will experience more gut pain than others when sick and how well they can metabolize a certain drug.

It’s unclear whether a person’s gut type might change over time, either naturally or in response to something such as a steady diet of probiotic yoghurt.”

Nature News – Gut study divides people into three types

]]> http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/2011/07/08/nature-news-gut-study-divides-people-into-three-types/feed/ 0 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 Adrian Toll 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 exclusively 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 New York Times – certain probiotics can reduce diarrohea http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/2009/11/19/new-york-times-certain-probiotics-can-reduce-diarrohea/ http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/2009/11/19/new-york-times-certain-probiotics-can-reduce-diarrohea/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:48:42 +0000 Adrian Toll http://whatisbifidusregularis.org/?p=99 Funny that this article suggests that some probiotics can prevent diarrhoea, when the advertising seems to hint much more at alleviating “bloating” – which implies constipation rather than diarrhoea…

Read the full article : Probiotics: Looking Underneath the Yogurt Label…

]]> Funny that this article suggests that some probiotics can prevent diarrhoea, when the advertising seems to hint much more at alleviating “bloating” – which implies constipation rather than diarrhoea…

Read the full article : Probiotics: Looking Underneath the Yogurt Label

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