Wednesday, June 30, 2010

New Study Finds Probiotics May Aid Fat And Weight Reduction

A new Japanese study, published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, claims that consuming a fermented milk product that contains the Lactobacillus strain over a period of 12 weeks might help in weight reduction for people laid low by obesity. With the World Health Organization projecting the population of overweight consumers by 2015 and 1.5 billion, and health-related expenditures in the US alone at $117 billion, the market for scientifically-substantiated weight management food products seems impressively upbeat. The Japanese researchers based their study on investigations conducted on 87 overweight subjects. Their findings showed that daily supplements of Lactobacillus gasseri SBT2055 (LG2055) administered over several weeks significantly lowered not only body weight but also tellingly reduced abdominal and subcutaneous fat.

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