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Supplementation of a high-carbohydrate breakfast with barley beta-glucan improves postprandial glycaemic response for meals but not beverages.

There is growing support for the protective role of soluble fibre in type II diabetes. Soluble fibre beta-glucan found in cereal products including oats and barley may be the active component. There is evidence of postprandial blunting of blood glucose and insulin responses to dietary carbohydrates when oat soluble fibre is supplemented into the diet but few trials have been carried out using natural barley or enriched barley beta-glucan products. The aim of this trial was to investigate the postprandial effect of a highly enriched barley beta -glucan product on blood glucose, insulin and lipids when given with a high-CHO food and a high-CHO drink. 18 lean, healthy men completed a 4 treatment intervention trial comprising (i) high-CHO(food control), (ii) high-CHO(food+fibre), (iii) high-CHO(drink control), (iv) high-CHO(drink+fibre) where a 10g dose of barley beta-glucan fibre supplement (Cerogen) containing 6.31g beta-glucan was added to food and drink controls. There was an increase of glucose and insulin following all 4 treatments. Addition of the beta -glucan supplement significantly blunted the glycaemic and insulinaemic responses on the food (p<0.05) but not drink (p>0.05) treatments when compared to controls. The high-CHO breakfasts decreased total, LDL- and HDL-cholesterol from baseline to 60 mins postprandially but there were no differential effects of beta-glucan treatment on circulating lipids. We conclude that a high dose barley beta-glucan supplement can improve glucose control when added to a high-CHO starchy food, probably due to increased gastro-intestinal viscosity, but not when added to a high-CHO beverage where rapid absorption combined with decreased beta-glucan concentration and viscosity may obviate this mechanism.

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The school breakfast program and cognition in adolescents.

We studied cognitive function and metabolic status in a group of healthy adolescents fed the government supplied breakfast (n = 18) versus a control group (n = 16) fed a very low calorie meal. Serum glucose and beta-hydroxybutyrate levels were repeatedly measured at predetermined intervals throughout the testing period. Acute cognitive and mood effect were evaluated in all subjects on a pre-post basis. No significant group differences emerged on a battery of psychological measures that assessed short-term auditory memory, vigilance, impulsivity, and mood. Neither serum glucose or beta-hydroxybutyrate levels correlated significantly with any behavioral measure. Results are discussed in the context of previous studies of nutrition and cognition.

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Factors related to the cariogenic potential of breakfast cereals.

Reported is a series of studies in which several breakfast cereals were tested for the following properties: sugar retained by, and plaque formed on, extracted teeth that chewed the cereals: ability of the cereals to induce acid formation when incubated with saliva and to neutralize acids when mixed with water: and, as a summary, ability to induce caries formation under mouth-simulation conditions. It was found that the cariogenic potential of the cereals tested is not dependent upon their sugar content, their retentiveness on the teeth, the amount of sugar retained by the teeth, or the amount of plaque formation they induced on the teeth. The only parameter that related well with the carcinogenic potential of the cereals was their buffering (or acid-neutralizing) ability: the greater the buffering, the lesser the carcinogenic potential. These results, which were confirmed in independent animal studies, case some doubts upon the role traditionally attributed to sugars in caries formation. At least they caution against generalizations and point out other factors that should be studied before a thorough understanding of the factors determining the cariogenicity of foods can be gained.

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Plasma cortisol concentration following breakfasts of different composition in healthy subjects.

We measured plasma cortisol concentrations following breakfasts of different fat:carbohydrate ratio in 23 healthy subjects. A meal-related peak of plasma cortisol concentration was not found, as well as any difference in plasma cortisol levels following the two meals. Since the two meals elicited plasma glucose and plasma insulin levels which were significantly different, it is suggested that plasma cortisol is not acutely affected by ambient glucose and insulin concentrations. The same results were found when the study group was subdivided in nonobese (n = 13) and obese (Body Mass Index greater than n = 10), thus confirming the previous statement in the presence of different body weights.

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Hormonal and metabolic responses to breakfast meals in niddm: comparison of white and whole-grain wheat bread and corresponding extruded products.

The post-prandial glucose and hormonal responses were followed in nine non-insulin-dependent diabetics after four randomized breakfast meals containing mainly wheat products. The effect of conventionally baked breads was compared with extruded crispbread-like products prepared from white or whole-grain wheat flour, respectively. The extruded whole-grain product gave significantly larger areas under the glucose and insulin curves than the corresponding baked bread, and resulted in higher C-peptide, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, and glucagon concentrations at certain time points. The mean incremental areas under the glucose curves were similar after white bread and the two extruded crispbread-like products. There were no significant differences between white and whole-grain bread. The results indicate that baked whole-grain wheat bread is to be preferred to corresponding extruded products in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

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Effect of motilin on the rate of gastric emptying and gut hormone release during breakfast.

The effect of an infusion of natural motilin on the rate of gastric emptying of a standard breakfast was studied in 5 subjects using Caesium 129-tagged resin particles. Emptying rates were measured on 4 separate days. On 2 days, the subjects receive only saline (controls), while on the other 2 days a motilin infusion of 0.34 pmol/kg/min for 60 min, followed by 0.68 pmol/kg/min for 60 min, was given. All infusions were blind and given in random order. At the end of the low-dose motilin infusion 31 +/- 4% of the meal had emptied, compared with 17 +/- 2% with saline infusion (P less than 0.01). A similar effect was also seen with the high-dose infusion. Plasma motilin concentrations rose from a basal of 68 +/- 13 pmol/liter to 126 +/- 10 pmol/liter during low-dose motilin infusion and to 170 +/- 11 pmol/liter during the high dose. No significant change in basal or postprandial levels of glucose, gastrin, pancreatic glucagon, pancreatic polypeptide, gastric inhibitory peptide, enteroglucagon, or vasoactive intestinal peptide was noted, but postprandial insulin release was greater during motilin infusion.

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Demonstration of heterogeneity in gestational diabetes by a 400-kcal breakfast meal tolerance test.

To evaluate the metabolic basis of gestational glucose intolerance (gestational diabetes), the response of normal pregnant women (N=6) and lean (N=23), and obese (N=12) gestational diabetics to the physiologic challenge of a 400-kcal mixed meal breakfast tolerance test was studied. Obese patients with gestational diabetes were more hyperglycemic than the lean gestational diabetics in both the fasting and postprandial periods. Women with gestational diabetes had a more prolonged glycemic response and a later insulin response to meal stimulation than normal control subjects. Fasting and postprandial insulin levels were higher in the obese gestational diabetes group, whereas those of lean subjects fell below the values of the control group. The percent specific binding of insulin to red blood cell receptors was lower in both gestational diabetes groups than in control subjects, with the most marked decrease in the obese group. Mean fasting plasma levels of total cholesterol and triglyceride and plasma glucagon levels during the meal tolerance test were not significantly different among the three groups. Obese gestational diabetics had significantly larger infants and placentas than lean gestational diabetics. These findings, taken together, suggest that the pathophysiology of gestational diabetes differs between obese and lean patients. Lean gestational diabetics appear to develop glucose intolerance on the basis of relative insulin deficiency in contrast to obese gestational diabetics who manifest glucose intolerance characterized by insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, and decreased insulin binding to red blood cell receptors.

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Methylphenidate hydrochloride given with or before breakfast: II. Effects on plasma concentration of methylphenidate and ritalinic acid.

Methylphenidate HCl (Ritalin) is often prescribed for the treatment of hyperactivity and is usually administered orally 30 minutes to 1 hour before meals, based on an assumption that meals may interfere with the absorption or metabolism of the drug. Seven boys who were taking methylphenidate regularly for the treatment of hyperactivity were hospitalized and given their established dose of the drug intravenously or orally, either with breakfast or in a fasted state. Blood samples were taken to determine the pharmacokinetics of the drug in each condition. Few differences between the "fed" and "fasted" states were noted, but the statistically significant differences indicated that meals accelerate rather than impede the absorption of methylphenidate.

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Presweetened dry breakfast cereals: potential for dental danger.

Sugar concentrations were measured by enzymatic methods in twenty-eight presweetened breakfast cereals. Means for the various sugars were in essential agreement with recently published gas-liquid chromatography results and also with the sugar values expressed on the labels of these cereals. Thus, accurate and reproducible analytical methods are available for sugar measurements in foods; sugar levels in foods can now be assessed with confidence and the information disseminated to interested food purchasers. Oral retention time, as measured by salivary sucrose determinations, was prolonged after ingestion of these cereals directly from the box; oral clearance was more rapid, when the same subject drank a sugar solution of the same concentration. Presweetened cereals are candidates for frequent ingestion as snacks, due to their candy-like taste. This fact plus the high sugar levels in these cereals and the tendency to prolonged intraoral retention, automatically classifies these materials as potential dental hazards, when used as snacks. It is not implied that this is the case, when these products are eaten at mealtime with milk.

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[The glycemic response to a test breakfast of an enteral diet with fiber and a high starch content in diabetics treated with insulin and oral antidiabetics].

An enteral nutrition preparation appeared recently on the Spanish market specifically for diabetic patients. It is a normocaloric and normoproteic formula of low osmolarity, rich in soluble fibre and slow-absorption carbohydrates such as fructose and starch, following the classic norms of the American Diabetics Association. The glycemic response was examined at 0, 30, 60 and 120 minutes following the ingestion of 250 cc of Precitene Diabet as breakfast for 40 diabetic patients, half treated with oral antidiabetic substances (DMado) and the other half with insulin (DMins). In both groups, the greatest glycemic increase was at 60 minutes. In the DMado patients, the increase at 60 minutes (70 mg/dl) was not significantly different from that considered by Skyler as acceptable. The same occurred at 120 minutes (40 mg/dl). In the DMins patients, the glycemic increase at 60 minutes was 27 +/- 29 mg/dl, more than that considered acceptable by Skyler (p 0.0006). After 120 minutes this difference was also greater than the acceptable level, by 41 +/- 38 mg/dl (p 0.0002). In conclusion, it may be considered that, for DMado patients, glycemic control remains within the postprandial limits considered to be "acceptable" so that no treatment modification is felt necessary in the administration of enteral nutrition with Precitene Diabet. The glycemic response in the DMins patients was higher than "acceptable", calling for rapid insulin supplements to their habitual NPH insulin doses.

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