Sentences with phrase «fibers in humans»

While it is still unclear as to the energy yield of fibers in humans, current data indicate that the yield is in the range of 1.5 to 2.5 kcal / g (Livesey, 1990; Smith et al., 1998).

This type of starch is resistant to digestion and acts like fiber in the human digestive tract.

CRC Handbook of Dietary Fiber in Human Nutrition 3rd edn CRC Press LLC, 2002.

Oligodendrocytes, in red, create a protective sheath around nerve fibers in human brain tissue.

CRC handbook of dietary fiber in human nutrition.

In CRC Handbook of Dietary Fiber in Human Nutrition.

CRC Handbook of Dietary Fiber in Human Nutrition, 2nd ed.

, CRC Handbook of Dietary Fiber in Human Nutrition.

Because the available evidence suggests that the beneficial effects of fiber in humans are most likely related to the amount of food consumedâ $» not to the individualâ $ ™ s age or body weightâ $» the best approach is to set an Adequate Intake (AI) based on grams per 1,000 kcal.

Not exact matches

A very serious test of human fiber is involved in the fact that there are so many good beginnings and poor endings.

We feel with every fiber of our being that The All - Mighty Creator has caused destruction to societies in the past who went beyond the bounds of proper human behaviour.

Falsehood, deceit, and outright lies in the public or private arena shatter relationships and tear at the very fiber of human life.

On August 19, 2016, the FDA's Department of Health & Human Services confirmed that Sunfiber ® is supported by sufficient scientific evidence and is included in their dietary fiber definition for guar gum.

Fiber must have clinical evidence to substantiate functional claims In May 2016, the FDA re-defined dietary fiber as a fiber that has a «physiological effect that is beneficial to human health.&rFiber must have clinical evidence to substantiate functional claims In May 2016, the FDA re-defined dietary fiber as a fiber that has a «physiological effect that is beneficial to human health.&rfiber as a fiber that has a «physiological effect that is beneficial to human health.&rfiber that has a «physiological effect that is beneficial to human health.»

I think this is unwise, personally, because the role of fermentable fibers, including RS, in the evolution of the human gut biome / immune system has been monumental and frankly irreplaceable.

Not only do many varieties of fresh chiles contain considerable amounts of fiber, antioxidants, and vitamin A, B1, B2, B3, C, and E, it's also been found that capsaicin (the active chemical component responsible for the fire in chilies) contributes positively to human health on its own.

Other soluble dietary fiber benefits of acacia gum include: progressive and complete fermentation by intestinal probiotics; slow fermentation due to it being a large, complex molecule; preferentially fermented by probiotics (Lactobacilli and bifidobacteria); high gastrointestinal tolerance in humans; and no side - effects (bloating, stomach rumbling, gas or cramps) below 50g / day.

Humans naturally used to get fructose mainly by eating fruit, which is also typically high in fiber, which helps to slow consumption and the body's absorption of the food.

(See: The Potential Health Benefits Of Makapuno Coconut Byproduct) Previous studies done on coconut flakes and coconut flour have also shown that the dietary fiber of coconut can reduce cholesterol levels (e.g. see: The Cholesterol - Lowering Effect of Coconut Flakes in Humans with Moderately Raised Serum Cholesterol)

Like many other fibers, inulin works as a prebiotic — supporting the growth of healthy bacteria in the human digestive tract.

The effects of fat and protein on glycemic responses in nondiabetic humans vary with waist circumference, fasting plasma insulin, and dietary fiber intake

Over the last decade lightweight carbon fiber and improvements in the design of the prosthetic racing foot have so improved performance that some people believe a human being without legs could have an advantage over one with them.

Katie Anthony, a mother of two and a Seattle - based blogger at KatyKatiKate.com, cloth - diapered for her first baby but crossed over for her second, lamenting, «When you pull the Diaper Genie bag out of the pail, and you just see this blue plastic tube full of NASA - invented synthetic fibers that are soaked in human waste, and it's just this foul little sausage, there's a part of me that is really sad.»

They were the first to demonstrate that a microwave beam could actually lift a real structure — a tiny sail, about 1.4 inches in diameter, composed of lightweight carbon fibers 10 times thinner than a human hair.

Ten years later, no one knows what was in the cloud of gases released by the combustion of all that jet fuel and building material but science has revealed what was in the dust — cement, steel, gypsum from drywall, building materials, cellulose from paper, synthetic molecules from rugs, glass fibers and human hair from the long decades of the two towers» use, among other items.

They found that although the protein stayed soluble for a week or two, it eventually polymerized into long fibers resembling those in so - called prion diseases — brain diseases such as scrapie in sheep, «mad cow disease» in cattle, and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans.

The discovery follows years of groundbreaking work by Arnold, who in 1995 discovered that an optical fiber could excite what he termed Whispering Gallery Mode (WGM) in polymer micro-beads less than one - third the diameter of a human hair.

The 180 - nanometer - wide fibers are made of beta - keratin, a protein similar to the one in human hair.

Additional support could come from the chimpanzee genome, which may allow researchers to clock when the genes for slow - twitch muscle fibers — crucial for running long distances and plentiful in people but not chimps — diverged in the common evolutionary history of humans and apes.

Scientists have even studied how mussels, using slender fibers called byssal threads that are simultaneously hard and stretchy, are able to cling so tight in a rough, wet environment, in hopes that humans could mimic that technology to create strong, flexible textiles.

Among the areas determined to be flawed and in need of more research are: accuracy and error rates of forensic analyses, sources of potential bias and human error in interpretation by forensic experts, fingerprints, firearms examination, tool marks, bite marks, impressions (tires, footwear), bloodstain - pattern analysis, handwriting, hair, coatings (for example, paint), chemicals (including drugs), materials (including fibers), fluids, serology, and fire and explosive analysis.

The lack of fiber in modern Western diets is often thought to cause harmful perturbations to the human gut microbiome.

In animals harboring intraperitoneal hollow - fiber or subcutaneous implants containing light - inducible transgenic cells, the serum levels of the human glycoprotein secreted alkaline phosphatase could be remote - controlled with fiber optics or transdermally regulated through direct illumination.

This was done using shRNA technology specific for BRCA1 in human myotubes (skeletal muscle fiber cells).

«The PRSS53 enzyme functions in the part of the hair follicle that shapes the growing hair fiber, and this new genetic variation, associated with straight hair in East Asians and Native Americans, supports the view that hair shape is a recent selection in the human family.»

Hydras are much simpler than most of their cousins in the animal kingdom, but the basic pattern of aligned cytoskeletal fibers is common in many organs, including human muscles, heart, and guts.

Using the natural human development process as a guide, the researchers developed ways to mature muscle cells in the laboratory to create muscle fibers that restore dystrophin, the protein that is missing in the muscles of boys with Duchenne.

«Our main finding was that diet quality influenced sleep quality,» said principal investigator Marie - Pierre St - Onge, PhD, assistant professor in the department of medicine and Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, N.Y. «It was most surprising that a single day of greater fat intake and lower fiber could influence sleep parameters.»

The muscle fibers they created were uniformily muscle cells, but the fibers were still smaller than those found in real human muscle.

The researchers then prepared a mouse - pellet form of an unhealthy human diet, high in fat and low in fiber, and housed svelte and heavy mice together again.

However, the high sequence divergence in the fiber protein (Table 2), as well as the absence of fiber motifs conserved among adenoviruses that bind CAR [36], [37](coxsackievirus - adenovirus receptor) or CD46 [38], [39], [40](data not shown), suggest that neither of these two human adenoviral receptors may be the attachment receptor for TMAdV.

We therefore hypothesized that theta - burst microstimulation, targeted to brain regions containing afferent fibers to the hippocampus, would improve episodic memory performance in humans.

Amyloid fibers are best known as the plaque that gunks up neurons in people with neurodegenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Creutzfeldt - Jacob disease — the human analog of mad cow disease.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (June 8, 2005)-- Amyloid fibers are best known as the plaque that gunks up neurons in people with neurodegenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Creutzfeldt - Jacob disease — the human analog of mad cow disease.

The Human Connectome Project, for example, has begun to map the pathways of neurons in the human brain — that is, the bundles of fibers that serve as the roadways along which electrical and chemical activity traHuman Connectome Project, for example, has begun to map the pathways of neurons in the human brain — that is, the bundles of fibers that serve as the roadways along which electrical and chemical activity trahuman brain — that is, the bundles of fibers that serve as the roadways along which electrical and chemical activity travels.

Diaphragm muscle fiber function and structure in humans with hemidiaphragm paralysis.

Human heart cells grown from stem cells show less - robust muscle fibers (green) in the presence of high levels of glucose (left) than when glucose levels were lower (right).

Human heart cells grown from stem cells show less - robust muscle fibers (green) in the presence of high levels of...

Generation of animals deficient in desmin (structuring protein of muscle fibers involved in human muscular dystrophies) using TALE nucleases.

Coordinated groups of cancer cells he was growing in his adviser's lab started moving through a network of fibers meant to mimic the spaces between cells in the human body.