Groupes major medical back édulcorants : aide alimentaire

HealthDay – 6 minutes depuis lundi, 9. Juillet (HealthDay News)--édulcorants non nutritives comme Splenda, égale et Sweet'N bas peut avoir un rôle à jouer pour maintenir ou même perdre du poids, aussi longtemps que les gens ne les utilisent pas comme un prétexte pour traiter vous-même plus tard avec goodies haute teneur calorique.

Cette approbation de six substituts du sucre comme une aide alimentaire est entré dans un avis scientifique publié lundi par deux organisations de santé majeur, l'American Heart Association et l'American Diabetes Association.

« Il y a peut-être un avantage pour les personnes à utilisent à bon escient et pas compensent plus tard dans la journée et annule la prestation, » dit Christopher Gardner, principal auteur de la nouvelle déclaration scientifique.

Selon le contexte informations dans le document sont publiées simultanément dans la circulation des journaux et soins du diabète, quelque 6 000 aliments et boissons sur le marché américain contiennent au moins un des édulcorants non nutritives disponibles 6.

Quatre d'entre eux--le sucralose (Splenda), acesuflame-K, néotame (faite de l'aspartame) et saccharine (Low Sweet'N)--sont des édulcorants artificiels et sont réglementés comme additifs alimentaires par la u.s. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). L'aspartame (égale ou NutraSweet) est composée de trois acides aminés et de stevia est un dérivé de la plante, donc techniquement pas considérés comme « artificielle », mais ils ont approuvé par la FDA, explique Gardner.

Peu importe d'où ils viennent, sont non nutritive édulcorants est devenue de plus en plus populaire. En 1965, il a passé seulement 3 pour cent des américains dans leur régime alimentaire en 2004 a attiré 15 %.

Cette augmentation de la popularité, mais n'a pas été accompagnée par une réduction de la consommation de sucres ajoutés, qui contribuent à l'obésité, le diabète et une série d'autres problèmes de santé, a fait remarquer l'expression scientifique.

Dans l'ensemble, la littérature scientifique concernant les édulcorants non nutritives sont faibles, mais il existe certaines preuves que boire un soda zéro calories diète au lieu d'un soda sucré peut aider à la réduction des calories.

Ni les boissons ont une valeur nutritive, mais les personnes qui boivent des boissons diète probables pas compensent avec les cookies ou autres calories vides plus tard dans la journée, dit Gardner.

En revanche, il a ajouté, les personnes qui consomment des aliments contenant des édulcorants non nutritives sont plus enclins à compenser avec sucre-lacées circonférentielle des éléments plus tard dans la journée.

À ce stade, c'est ne pas clair ce que les édulcorants non nutritive effet peuvent avoir sur la perte de poids réelle ou gain, ou total en calories ou apport en hydrates de carbone, ou si elles ont un effet sur les autres facteurs de risque de maladies cardiaques et le diabète.

Mais il y a certains caractères (en grande partie anecdotiques) de consommer des produits édulcorants non nutritive peuvent aider les personnes diabétiques de surveiller leur consommation de sucre, un élément clé dans la gestion du diabète, Gardner a dit.

« Choisir le régime alimentaire bicarbonate de soude à la soude ou aliments de choix même avec édulcorants non nutritives peuvent avoir un impact direct sur les apports en sucre et

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Soft drink consumption not the major contributor to childhood obesity, study says

ScienceDaily (June 14, 2012) — Most children and youth who consume soft drinks and other sweetened beverages, such as fruit punch and lemonade, are not at any higher risk for obesity than their peers who drink healthy beverages, says a new study published in the October issue of Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism. The study examined the relationship between beverage intake patterns of Canadian children and their risk for obesity and found sweetened beverage intake to be a risk factor only in boys aged 6-11.

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"We found sweetened drinks to be dominant beverages during childhood, but saw no consistent association between beverage intake patterns and overweight and obesity," says lead author Susan J. Whiting. "Food and beverage habits are formed early in life and are often maintained into adulthood. Overconsumption of sweetened beverages may put some children at increased risk for overweight and obesity. Indeed, boys aged 6-11 years who consumed mostly soft drinks were shown to be at increased risk for overweight and obesity as compared with those who drank a more moderate beverage pattern."

The authors determined beverage consumption patterns among Canadian children aged 2-18 years using cluster analysis where sociodemographics, ethnicity, household income, and food security were significantly different across the clusters. Data were divided into different age and gender groups and beverage preferences were studied. For this study the sweetened, low-nutrient beverages, categorized according to Canada's Food Guide, consisted of fruit-flavoured beverages, beverages with less than 100% fruit juice, lemonades, regular soft drinks, and sweetened coffees or teas.

The authors found the main predictors of childhood obesity in Canadian children were household income, ethnicity, and household food security.

The study "Beverage patterns among Canadian children and relationship to overweight and obesity" appears in the October issue of Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism.

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Major overhaul of US life urged to cure obesity: experts

"Two overweight women walk at the 61st Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in 2009. Two-thirds of American adults are too fat, and a major overhaul of US policies -- from schools to restaurants to urban planning -- is needed to stem the epidemic, medical experts said. (AFP Photo/Tim Sloan)" title

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Dengue Fever a Major Cost Burden in Puerto Rico

HealthDay – 3 hrs ago WEDNESDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) -- The costs of treating and coping with dengue fever in Puerto Rico total nearly $38 million a year, a new study finds.

It also said that every $1 spent on surveillance and prevention of the mosquito-borne disease could save $5 in illness-related costs.

Households pay nearly half the costs of the disease, followed by government (24 percent), insurance companies (22 percent) and employers (7 percent), according to researchers from Brandeis University's Schneider Institutes for Health Policy in Waltham, Mass.

The study appears in the May issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Given that the U.S. government covers 62 percent of Puerto Rico's public health expenses, "sound investments related to dengue would benefit not only residents of Puerto Rico but all taxpayers throughout the United States," the researchers said in a journal news release.

They focused on Puerto Rico because it's an area within the United States with substantial numbers of dengue fever. In 2010, more than 22,000 cases of dengue fever were reported, which works out to an incidence rate of 57 cases per 10,000 people. Because treatment is readily available, deaths from dengue fever in Puerto Rico average about 16 per year.

"People generally think of dengue as a disease of poor countries; the fact that we found it to be a major burden in a U.S. territory -- and because it recently has cropped up on the U.S. mainland -- is a reminder that mosquito-borne illnesses can present an equal opportunity threat," study co-author Donald Shepard said in the news release.

Dengue fever, which broke out in the Florida Keys in 2010, currently threatens nearly 3 billion people worldwide. Public health experts warn that the spread of dengue fever could prove more costly and cause more illness than malaria.

Symptoms in dengue include high fever plus at least two of the following: severe headache, eye pain, joint pain, muscle or bone pain, rash, mild bleeding and low white blood cell count, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Worldwide, dengue fever infects 100 million to 200 million people each year and causes 20,000 deaths, according to the release.

The study received funding from vaccine maker , which is developing a dengue vaccine, the release disclosed.

More information

The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has more about dengue fever.

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