Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic
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Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic
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Re: Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic
#2Ice cream probably isn't the best option anyway if you have diarrhea. Generally it's best to eat a lot of the types of food that feed the good bacteria, such as vegetables, whole grains, etc.
Re: Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic
#3Ice cream probably isn't the best option anyway if you have diarrhea. Generally it's best to eat a lot of the types of food that feed the good bacteria, such as vegetables, whole grains, etc.
In several hospital patients I have known, they give Ice cream due to the calorie density. So, it has it's uses. Note that this is already linked to sick and elderly patients, so it's ease of eating is also important.
Re: Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic
#4>..it might surprise you to learn that, over the past 15 years or so, some makers of ice cream and many other processed foods—from pasta to ground beef products—have changed their recipes to swap out some of the table sugar (sucrose) with a sweetening/texturizing ingredient called trehalose that depresses the freezing point of food.
How the hell is the food industry not regulated more strictly.
FDA spending on regulation of food. 2017 - 1.195 Billion(https://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/fy2017/budget-in-brief/fda/...)
Total size of food industry based of revenue 2016 - 2.0215 Trillion(https://www.plunkettresearch.com/statistics/Industry-Statist...)
1.195 Billion/2.0215 Trillion = 0.05911% spent on regulation. Is that too much or too little? You decide.
I would argue that this has to do with large companies lobbying to make sure that the consumers stay uninformed.( Do not have data on it)
I know it seems crazy implausible for people to have a digital record of what they eat. Imagine if doctors could have access to that.I am not familiar with EU laws, but sure they are better over there. (Researchers in the U.S never will get access to bulk data because of HIPA: need a personal signature from each person to obtain access.)
Re: Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic
#5Ice cream probably isn't the best option anyway if you have diarrhea. Generally it's best to eat a lot of the types of food that feed the good bacteria, such as vegetables, whole grains, etc.
This article is about the rise in hospital-acquired cdiff infections. So the patients were fine until they were served ice cream made with trehalose.
I think this paragraph is the article's kicker:
>> What has changed is the recent addition of man-made trehalose into the food supply, often in large quantities. This shift was prompted by a new method to manufacture trehalose from cornstarch, which made the sugar much less costly. In 2000, FDA approved the sugar as a safe food additive. Trehalose quickly found its way into processed foods in the U.S. and around the world for its mild, flavor-enhancing sweetness and protection of frozen foods. In some store-bought ice creams, it’s found at concentrations of up to 11 percent.
(emphasis added)
When I buy ice cream I usually get Haagen-Daaz, because it's the only reliable national brand. Cheap ice creams use various gums (carageenan, guar gum, locust bean gum) to give low-cream products the texture of ice cream.
Re: Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic
#6There are other interactions like that: for instance, magnesium is known to massively increase the replication of rhinoviruses (common cold).
Magnesium is also a common food supplement...
Re: Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic
#7There are other interactions like that: for instance, magnesium is known to massively increase the replication of rhinoviruses (common cold). Magnesium is also a common food supplement...
Yet apparently half the US population is magnesium deficient: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22364157
Re: Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic
#8Some day, I'm confident our current practices related to food and nutrition will be looked back upon with horror and dismay. The lack of decent regulation, the lack of understanding of basic nutrition, the desire to somehow improve upon the foods that nature intended, all will be seen as the disasters they likely are.
Our chemically created foods are likely killing us in a variety of ways we are only just now beginning to understand.
Re: Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic
#9Some day, I'm confident our current practices related to food and nutrition will be looked back upon with horror and dismay. The lack of decent regulation, the lack of understanding of basic nutrition, the desire to somehow improve upon the foods that nature intended, all will be seen as the disasters they likely are. Our chemically created foods are likely killing us in a variety of ways we are only just now beginni…
Our chemically chaste pre-industrial food supply did a fine job of killing without much help from us.
Re: Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic
#10There are other interactions like that: for instance, magnesium is known to massively increase the replication of rhinoviruses (common cold). Magnesium is also a common food supplement...
Many common Mg supplements have rather poor bioavailability according to several studies and the dietary needs are quite high, high enough that most people are actually deficient in Mg according to research by the FDA.
Mg deficiency is suspected to have several rather significant effects. All the way from cognitive effects to heart disease and formation of kidney stones.