Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Thorough Chewing Raises Hormones Regulating Food Intake

(Lisbon, Portugal) Thorough chewing of food stimulates the release of 2 intestinal peptides that reduce appetite and food intake in obese individuals, according to the results of a study presented here at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) 47th Annual Meeting.
Research was done in Japan, led by M. Saito from the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine at Ohu University in Fukushima, Japan. They reported that their study is the first to show that thorough chewing stimulates postprandial increases of glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 and peptide YY (PYY), both of which are secreted by intestinal L cells.

Reference: Medscape medical news, http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/749504 accessed on Sep. 13, 2011
Link 1

No comments:

Post a Comment