Snacking between meals is an increasingly common habit. A team of researchers studied whether this affects health and concluded that it depends on the type of food and the moment. Better not to do it late at night.
These are the interim results of a study conducted by King’s College London and presented at NUTRITION, the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition, held in Boston, USA.
The refreshments represent between 20% and 25% of energy intake, according to the authors of a study in which a thousand people participated, which shows that quality of snacks is more important than yours amount or frequency.
Choose high-quality snacks that contain significant amounts nutrients in regards to calorie which contribute, instead of highly processed “is probably useful“, says study coordinator Kate Bermingham from King’s College London.
The time of day is also important, because snacking late at night is unfavorable for health“Added the expert in a statement from the American Dietetic Association, which added that snacking between meals is increasingly popular and that more than 70% of people say that they do it at least twice a day.
The work is part of the ZOE PREDICT project, a group of large studies on nutrition research insights designed to reveal how and why people react differently to them. food.
The researchers examined the relationship between amountquality and timing of snacks with fat in the blood and insulin levelsboth indicators of cardiometabolic health.
The analysis showed that snacking on higher quality foods was associated with a better response to blood fat and insulin. Furthermore, consumption snacks late at night, which lengthens the meal time and shortens the period overnight fastwas associated with unfavorable blood glucose and lipid levels.
No relationship was observed between snacking frequency, caloric intake, and food quantity with any of the health measures tested.
Other research presented to Congress suggests that taking probiotics could help prevent memory impairment, according to their preliminary results, which have not yet been published in a scientific journal.
The researchers found that when study participants with cognitive decline patients who received the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) for three months, their cognitive scores increased.
This one cognitive improvement it was also associated with changes in his gut microbiome.
The main author of the study, Mashael Aljumaah, from North Carolina State University (USA), believes that “this adds a new layer to our understanding connections brain-guts microbiome and opens new avenues to combat cognitive decline associated with agingAccording to the congress statement.
The research included 169 participants aged 52 to 75, who were divided into two groups depending on whether they had neurological problems or represented by a cognitive decline mild.
Within each group, the participants received the LGG probiotic, on which Research Previous studies have shown their possible beneficial effects on animal modelsor placebo for three months.
Many studies are focused on severe forms of cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementiamaking them much more difficult to reverse or treat, Aljumaah noted.
However, the team studied mild cognitive impairment, which can include problems with memory, Language or a trial, a phase in which interventions “could slow or prevent progression to more severe forms of dementia.”
Source: Panama America
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