Research supports new health advantages for well-established vitamins, minerals, pre- and probiotics, and omega fatty acids. Such health conditions range from weight management and eye health to cognition and cancer risk reduction.
October 20/London/Indo-Asian News Service -- Probiotic drinks and yogurts, popular with millions of consumers trying to stay healthy, do not really help people's digestion, finds a recent study.
According to a publication called The Consumer’s Guide to Probiotics, by S.K. Dash (2005), back in the early 1970s, government officials, scientists and ranchers were only just beginning to understand
Today, good scientific evidence exists to support the ability of probiotics (whether living) to increase a body's resistance to enteric pathogens, speed recovery from antibiotic-associated diarrhea, reduce hypertension, and assist with lactose digestion.
Probiotic products have been marketed for a number of years, primarily in the yogurt category or as live microbial dietary supplements whose biological activity needed to be preserved. This tends to limit their consumption to supplements taken after meals or in fresh dairy foods. One technology now makes it possible to "have your probiotic and eat it, too!"