Probiotics Reduce Postpartum Obesity
From Science Daily:
“The results of our study, the first to demonstrate the impact of probiotics-supplemented dietary counselling on adiposity, were encouraging,” said Kirsi Laitinen, a nutritionist and senior lecturer at the University of Turku in Finland who presented her findings on May 7 at the European Congress on Obesity. “The women who got the probiotics [during pregnancy and until the women stopped breast feeding] fared best. One year after childbirth, they had the lowest levels of central obesity as well as the lowest body fat percentage.”
That’s a unusual way to look at the data. Most studies of weight control look at weight change so as to adjust for individual differences. Maybe pre-pregnancy weights were not avaiable.
Thanks to Dave Lull.
May 18th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Have you heard of Epicor? It is a fermented yeast product feed to livestock under the Diamond V XPC label. It has some interesting history.
http://www.diamondv.com/
Humans are taking this as a supplement.
http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=17713&hl=epicor&st=0
I’ve never tried it but I wonder if you could comment on the science behind this. Is this a probiotic?
May 19th, 2009 at 7:18 am
I have been taking EpiCor for a couple of years.
It started as a supplement for livestock. The company found out that the factory workers got sick less than the office workers. So they started producing it for humans, too.
I watched the webinar at
http://www.vrp.com/webinar/epicor/index.aspx
It has a lot of info, but I don’t think they are exactly sure how it works yet.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:41 am
There were some problems with this study.
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/05/science-says-isnt-always-what-science.html