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Dannon Activia has cultures that last.(up front: News/Trends/Advice)(yogurt)
The TV ad shows two college women, one ready to party, the other looking miserable. "I'm bloated, irregular," she groans. Her friend diagnoses stress and prescribes Dannon Activia yogurt.
The reason is probiotics. They're beneficial bacteria that live in the small intestine and are present in many yogurts. They may help with some digestive disorders and could have other advantages. In a study described in the April 2006 online edition of the gastroenterology journal Gut, researchers found that stressed-out rats benefited from a serving of water containing certain probiotics.
Activia contains Bifidus regularis, a strain trademarked by Dannon that is not in its other yogurts. A few small studies suggest regularis creates some greater, um, movement through the intestines, but we can't say it's better than other probiotic bacteria. We can, however, address one boast: that it "survives passage through the digestive tract, arriving in the colon as a living ...
- Dannon Activia Launches Thought-Provoking Advertising Campaign Featuring Jamie...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 3, 2008 700+ words
...impact on their daily lives**. Still, many people are silent about this important subject. Through her discovery of Dannon Activia, Jamie Lee Curtis will help make Americans feel more comfortable talking about their digestive systems and explain easy...
- Project aims to keep probiotic bacteria alive in food products.
- Newspaper article from: Life Science Weekly February 10, 2003 700+ words
...exploring the beneficial nature of probiotic bacteria and testing viable methods for its...acidic conditions in the human body. Probiotic bacteria restore the valuable bacteria found...influence the viability and stability of probiotic bacteria through several steps, using yogurt...
- Optimize microencapsulation of probiotic bacteria for stability.
- Newspaper article from: Emerging Food R&D Report June 1, 2009 700+ words
...enhance the survival of encapsulated probiotic bacteria. It appears that coating the microcapsules...researchers encapsulated eight strains of probiotic bacteria, including Lactobacillus rhamnosus...adding POPL improved the viability of probiotic bacteria in acidic conditions, both ...
- Light shed on the secret behind probiotic bacteria promoting health.
- Newspaper article from: NewsRx Science October 25, 2009 700+ words
...success of dairy products containing probiotic bacteria. Many research publications have...promoting effects of LGG and other probiotic bacteria, and the positive immune modulation...field has been established around probiotic bacteria. So far, thousands of scientific...
- Living it up for dinner. (probiotic bacteria in human diet)(Cover Story)
- Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry Shortt, Colette April 20, 1998 700+ words
...In the case of certain microorganisms - beneficial or 'probiotic' bacteria - eating living creatures may well be a good way to look...the indigenous microflora.'[10] In other words, probiotic bacteria are live bacteria that can withstand the rigours of the...
- Enumeration of the contaminating bacterial microbiota in unfermented...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Microbiology Champagne, C.P. Raymond, Y. Gonthier, J. Audet, P. April 1, 2009 700+ words
...For this purpose, a means to inhibit the growth of the probiotic bacteria must be carried out without affecting the colony development...contaminating bacteria in pasteurized milk enriched with the probiotic bacteria. We report on the effect of phosphate addition to SPC...
- Probiotic bacteria: do they provide risks, benefits ... or both?(Ask EN)
- Magazine article from: Environmental Nutrition May 1, 2008 700+ words
...What About Everyone Else? There have been reams of research testing the potential health benefits of different probiotic bacteria. The results have not been altogether consistent--some have shown benefits like boosting the immune system...
- New study reinforces the health benefits of probiotic bacteria, inc Actimint.
- Magazine article from: Nutraceuticals International July 1, 2008 700+ words
...at London's Imperial College, published in Molecular Systems Biology, adds more weight to the argument for probiotic bacteria, demonstrating the measurable affect they have on gut flora. It revealed that when probiotics are consumed...
