BACKGROUND Cancer patients suffer from diverse symptoms, including depression, anxiety, pain, and fatigue and lower quality of life (QoL) during disease progression. This study aimed to evaluate the benefits of Traditional Chinese Medicine psycho-behavioral interventions (TCM PBIs) on improving QoL by meta-analysis. RESULTS The six TCM PBIs analyzed were acupuncture, Chinese massage, Traditio...

Patients with a short small bowel (SSB) suffer continuously from abdominal pain, flatulence and diarrhoea. Their faeces contains a very characteristic flora, that normally consists of /70% (sometimes even up to 99%) of lactobacilli. In this study, we intended to prove that the mentioned inconveniences are mainly caused by fermentative activity of the massively present heterolactic lactobacilli....

Not only the ancient man was tormented by the whirlwinds in his bowel but even today belching, bloating and flatulence remain all too common to the modern man. Although the syndromes related to intestinal gas were recognised since time of Hippocrates, the treatment of these syndromes had been far from satisfactory (I). The advent of space exploration, and with it the recognition, that gaseous d...

OBJECTIVE To characterise the influence of diet on abdominal symptoms, anal gas evacuation, intestinal gas distribution and colonic microbiota in patients complaining of flatulence. DESIGN Patients complaining of flatulence (n=30) and healthy subjects (n=20) were instructed to follow their usual diet for 3 days (basal phase) and to consume a high-flatulogenic diet for another 3 days (challeng...

Surveys of recreational and competitive athletes indicate that digestive/ gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are common both during training and during competitive endurance events (3,4,7,12,13,15,17). Women appear to be most susceptible, but complaints by men are frequent. The most severe symptoms occur during running rather than biking or swimming, but symptoms are noted during all activities. S...

Abstract The concurrent extraction of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates can be achieved by aqueous enzymatic processes, circumventing the low extractability mechanical pressing use flammable solvents. alkaline protease, preceded or not carbohydrase pretreatments, was evaluated on oil, protein, from full-fat chickpea flour protein functionality. Enzymatic increased oil 49.8 to 72.0–77.1% 62.8 ...

Bloating (meteorism, tympanities) is a symptom that indicates the presence of air or gas in abdominal intestinal cavity (Gina et al., 2020). In newborns (neonates) occurs because digestive system neonates immature, besides there are not enough enzymes available at birth, and will only reach sufficient levels with increasing age, this as stated by Padila al. , 2019. To overcome flatulence infant...

Soybean milk serves as a base for a variety of beverages designed for consumption in developing countries. Soybean flour contains raffinose and stachyose considered to be responsible for flatulence often associated with these products (J.J. Rackis, D.H. Honig, D.J. Sessa, and F.R. Steggerda, 1970). alpha-Galactosidase, produced on wheat bran, hydrolyzes the galactooligosaccharides of soybean milk.