A 20-week randomized, placebo-controlled crossover study investigated the effects of resistant starch (RS) supplementation on weight loss and metabolic health in 37 adults with overweight or obesity. Participants alternated between an 8-week RS intervention (40 g/day) and…
A 12‐week preclinical study in Sprague–Dawley rats investigated the effects of aerobic exercise and prebiotic fiber supplementation on muscle composition and systemic metabolic outcomes in an obesity model induced by a high‐fat/high‐sucrose (HFS) diet. Rats were divided…
A 12 week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of 120 Type 2 diabetes patients examined the effect of placebo, a probiotic and a synbiotic on measurements such as fasting blood glucose (FBG), with secondary outcomes including hemoglobin A1C…
In a recently published systematic review, researchers examined the effect of chicory inulin-type fructan supplements to support weight management. The researchers located 32 eligible studies, observing reduced body weight compared to placebo, favored overall effects reduction in BMI,…
According to a paper published in The journal of Nutrition, researchers studies the long-term effect of consumption of black tea kombucha consumption for eight weeks on 46 individuals of who were either of normal weight or were…
In a systematic review and meta-analysis, researchers evaluated twenty RCTs with a total of 1271 participants noting high-quality evidence supporting prebiotics’ effects, alone or as part of synbiotics, in reducing body-mass index as well as medium-quality evidence for…