Archive for category Whole grains

General Mills Recruited 900 Blogges

General Mills has via MyBlogSpark recruited more than 900 bloggers – over 80 percent are moms. This is an important audience to General Mills and they plan to feed them free products and enable them to run giveaways for their audiences.

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Make Half Your Grains Whole Conference materials are now online

The 2009 Whole Grains Council conference in Alexandria was a success. If you missed it you can now find the fill program with links to speaker’s presentations as pdf-files. Also valuable facts sheets from the conference binder is available plus speakers’ bios and abstracts. Thanks to Oldways, Kara and Cynthia for organizing this very inspiring event.

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Soluble vs. insoluble dietary fiber intake on high-fat diet-induced obesity

This study show that soluble vs insoluble dietary fiber added to a high-fat, Western-style diet differently affected body weight and estimates of insulin sensitivity in obesity-prone mice.

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Oat extract may cut cigarette cravings

A standardised oat extract may reduce cravings for smoking and offer would-be quitters an alternative to the patches and gums, suggests a pilot study from Japan.

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Causal link between diet and coronary heart disease

A new systematic review concludes there is STRING evidence supporting a protective effect of vegetables, nuts, and “Mediterranean” and high-quality dietary patterns with CHD, and associations of harmful factors, including intake of trans-fatty acids and foods with a high glycemic index or load. Among studies of higher methodologic quality, there was also strong evidence for monounsaturated fatty acids and “prudent” and “western” dietary patterns. MODERATE evidence for fish, marine omega-3 fatty acids, folate, whole grains, dietary vitamins E and C, beta carotene, alcohol, fruit, and fiber.

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Childhood obesity prevention study

3135 boys and girls in grades 1-4 were included in this new Swedish study. Low-fat dairy products and whole-grain bread were promoted and all sweets and sweetened drinks were eliminated in intervention schools. Physical activity (PA) was aimed to increase by 30 min per day during school time and sedentary behaviour restricted during after school care time. PA was measured by accelerometry. No weight difference between intervention and controls was found after cluster adjustment. However, a larger proportion of the children who were initially overweight reached normal weight in the intervention group (14%) compared with the control group (7.5%). PA did not differ between intervention and control schools after cluster adjustment.

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Whole Grain Acceptability Among Youths With Type 1 Diabetes

This pilot study investigated the acceptability of whole grain and legume foods in youths with type 1 diabetes and determined demographic and behavioral factors associated with their acceptability.

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6-Week Rye Intervention Study in Men with Prostate Cancer

This is a crossover intervention study, where men with prostate cancer (n = 17) were fed rye whole-grain/bran or refined wheat products for 6-wk periods. The results show that a single fasting plasma sample could be used to estimate the mean plasma alkylresorcinols concentration at a precision of +/- 20%. This suggests that the plasma Alkylresorcinols concentration can be used as a reliable biomarker for whole-grain wheat and rye under intervention conditions where intake is kept constant.

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Trends and Developments on the U.S. Market for Whole and Other Grains

Buy this 187 page market research report for “only” 3300 US$. After years of falling consumption, grains are back on the menu, with per capita use rising. Wheat, rice, oats, barley and a host of specialty grains are regaining acceptance from consumers, dieticians and nutritionists. In turn, food manufacturers are developing new grain-based products and seeing new popularity for old standbys. But the focus is on grains in their healthiest forms – whole grains – rather than refined wheat and rice products that offer less in the way of fiber or nutrition. There is a marked increase in products using the food label ‘œwhole grain.’

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Whole grain consumption and the prevention of colorectal cancer: Meta-analysis of cohort studies

A systematic review with meta-analysis of 11 cohort studies was carried out. In the multivariate analysis, consumption of whole grains was inversely associated with the risk of developing colorectal cancer.

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