Healthy gut flora could prevent obesity (and more)

Lund University ^ | May 25, 2011 | Unknown

[chuckles]

My daughter has Crohn’s and probiotics absolutely help. The best one we’ve found is Garden of Life-Primal Defense ULTRA. It has the largest variation of different probiotics and in sufficient amounts. I can’t say whether it helps her weight or not.

[Bigg Red]

I tried that yogurt once and it played havoc with my GI tract. Perhaps it takes the body some time to adjust....

[Bigg Red]

My body sure can tell the difference. And my intestines do not like the HFCS.

[Bigg Red]

Yuck! Please don’t show me her, as I will not want to eat yogurt.

[diamond6]

Yogurt ping

[JoeProBono]

[Rebelbase]

Is that an AFLAC commercial?

[Netizen]

The sad thing is that they are sticking it in everything. You have to really read the labels. I bought some red kidney beans and found that they have HFCS. Won’t be buying that brand again.

[Bigg Red]

Oh, I know. It is very hard to find many products that don’t have HFCS. Hunt’s ketchup now has a banner on the label declaring no HFCS is in it.

[Albion Wilde]

I tried that yogurt once and it played havoc with my GI tract. Perhaps it takes the body some time to adjust....

Yep -- a few days. Best to start it on a weekend or vacation.

But "gut" health is important. Certain substances not cleared out and fermenting in there can literally make a person intoxicated and feel drugged or exhausted.

[daisy mae for the usa]

Here is a recipe for making your own yogurt. It works well. I tried it. But I do prefer the stove-top method. Stove-top makes a thicker type. Either way, it takes 100% better than store bought!

http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/10/you-can-make-yogurt-in-your-crockpot.html

I was scared to try it at first, but once I did, YUM! Cost effective, too!

[meowmeow]

I was scared to try it at first, but once I did, YUM! Cost effective, too!

Isn't is awesome?! I found that recipe a few weeks ago and gave it a shot and LOVE it. I like the consistency because I mainly use it in my morning fruit smoothie. Where I used to use milk + yogurt + fruit, now I just use the yogurt and fruit. Like you, I was nervous trying it at first but no ill effects and it is SO much yummier than store bought.

[EnglishCon]

It does take a while for your body to adjust - it was about two weeks of irritation and an uninhabitable bathroom when I started (wife kept nagging me to try it).
Once you get through that, yes, you do feel better.

Can’t suggest a way for you to avoid HFCS in food though other than avoid tinned goods altogether. It is an illegal additive over here and through most of Europe, make of that what you will.

[EnglishCon]

Thank you, going to give that a try!

I use the classic fridge and starter culture method, but your recipe looks not only nicer, but easier too, fridge space always being at a premium!

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Absolutely makes more sense and I can attest to the truth of this matter. To battle Lyme Disease, I took enormous doses of 5 different antibiotics for almost 3 years. I never needed to watch my weight before then. During the time that antibiotics were a food group for me, weight gain was a problem.

[daisy mae for the usa]

Glad to see someone else enjoying it! I’ve have tried it with protein drinks to. That worked well, also. Maybe others will give it a shot!

[daisy mae for the usa]

Glad to help! :) Here’s to happy flora in our stomachs and happy fauna in our gardens!!!

[aruanan]

"Rats who were given this specific lactic acid bacterium from their time in the uterus up to adult age put on significantly less weight than other rats. Both groups ate the same amount of high-energy food", explains Caroline Karlsson, a researcher in food hygiene at Lund University.

If the rats actually ingested exactly the same amount of the same food, about the only thing this could mean is that the lactic acid bacterium-laden rats absorbed less nutrients through their guts than the other rats, resulting in the difference in weight/fat between the two groups.

Feed was administered ad libitum, and the consumption per cage was recorded once a week.

But, now that I've read the paper, the rats didn't eat the same amount of high-energy food. They were allowed to feed on the same high-energy food ad libitum, which means whenever they felt like eating it. So the mechanism may be that certain bacteria resulted in an increase in appetite, the Ec rats, or helped to restrain appetite, the Lp rats.

A further complication could be this: To further stress the system, by exposure from fetal life to adulthood, rat dams of the outbreed Sprague–Dawley stock were mated and fed with a high-energy-dense diet (HEDD) and bacterial supplement during pregnancy and lactation, and then their offspring received the same treatment for 6 months.

Changes in parents' phenotypes due to environmental factors can manifest in differences in offspring in different ways and even have effects on succeeding and future generations, aka epigenetics.