Pregnancy After 40, Weight Gain May Be Controlled With Probiotics
I keep hearing about the benefits of probiotics for everything from intestinal health to allergies. Many yogurt companies are advertising "live cultures" in their products.Here is an article about how they may help with weight during and after pregnancy:
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"The results of our study, the first to demonstrate the impact of probiotics-supplemented dietary counselling on adiposity, were encouraging. The women who got the probiotics fared best. One year after childbirth, they had the lowest levels of central obesity as well as the lowest body fat percentage," she said."Central obesity, where overall obesity is combined with a particularly fat belly, is considered especially unhealthy. We found it in 25% of the women who had received the probiotics along with dietary counselling, compared with 43% in the women who received diet advice alone," she added.
During the study, Kirsi and her colleagues randomly divided 256 women into three groups during the first trimester of pregnancy. Two of the groups received dietary counselling consistent with what''s recommended during pregnancy for healthy weight gain and optimal foetal development.
The study subjects were also given food items like spreads and salad dressings with monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids, as well as fibre-enriched pasta and breakfast cereal to take home.
The researchers said that one of the groups was daily given capsules containing Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium, the most commonly used probiotics.
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(timesofindia.com)
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