Non-starch polysaccharide/dietary fibre supplementation using small meals in long-stay frail elderly patients

Article Abstract:

An attempt was made to increase non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) and dietary fiber in the diets of long-term continuing-care elderly patients by introducing a high-fiber cake alternative to their diets. A four week control period was followed by four weeks during which nurses offered the modified cakes and then another four week control period. Although subjects consumed little of the high-fiber cakes and added only 3.3%-5.6% of the recommended daily allowance of fiber to their diets, a sustained decrease in laxative use was observed.

Physiological aspects, Food and nutrition, Long-term care of the sick, Long term care, Polysaccharides, Frail elderly, Fiber in human nutrition, Dietary fiber

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Metabolic responses to starch in oat and wheat products. On the importance of food structure, incomplete gelatinization or presence of viscous dietary fibre

Article Abstract:

A study of the food habits and the subsequent metabolic effects on nine healthy 65- to 70-year-old male volunteers at the Dalby Health Sciences Centre, Sweden, revealed that kernel porridge curbed metabolic responses, as validated in the low insulin and glucose responses of consumers of intact oat and wheat kernels. Postprandial glycaemia, however, was independent of the effects of unfinished gelatinization or the natural process of viscous dietary fiber in oats.

Analysis, Sweden, Metabolic regulation, Wheat, Oats

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