Alimentando Práticas – Prebióticos e Probióticos em preparações culinárias – Ana Vládia – artigo 3
Water kefir as a promising low-sugar probiotic fermented beverage
BackgroundWater kefir is a slightly sweet, acidic, fruity, sparkling, and slightly alcoholic fermented beverage produced with water kefir grains, the latter consisting of polysaccharides and micro-organisms. The micro-organisms involved inwater kefir fermentation comprise yeast, lactic acid bacteria, bifidobacteria, and acetic acid bacteria. Some strains of micro-organisms in water kefir might possess probiotic activity. Also, water kefir is a beverage withrelatively low sugar content, providing an interesting alternative ...
Alimentando Práticas – Prebióticos e Probióticos em preparações culinárias – Ana Vládia – artigo 2
Microbial Species Diversity, Community Dynamics, and MetaboliteKinetics of Water Kefir Fermentation
Water kefir is a sour, alcoholic, and fruity fermented beverage of which the fermentation is started with water kefir grains. These water kefir grains consist of polysaccharide and contain the microorganisms responsible for the water kefir fermentation. In this work, a water kefir fermentation process was followed as a function of time during 192 h to unravel the community dynamics, the species diversity, and the kinetics of substrate consumption and metabolite production. The majority of ...
Alimentando Práticas – Prebióticos e Probióticos em preparações culinárias – Ana Vládia – artigo 1
Evaluation of Anti-Hyperglycemic and Anti-Hyperlipidemic Activities of Water Kefir as Probiotic on Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Wistar Rats
AbstractDiabetes mellitus is a predominant chronic disease which causes mortality of millions of people yearly. Its prevalence is on the rise worldwide. Water kefir is fermented food produced by a matrix of polysaccharides containing bacteria and yeasts, with therapeutic properties. Our study aimed to evaluate anti-hyperglycemic and anti-hyperlipidemic activities of water kefir on streptozotocin-induced diabetic Wistar rats. Adult Wistar rats were ...
Nutrição e Psoríase – Artigo 22
Efficacy of nutritional treatment in patients with psoriasis: A case report
Abstract. Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by thickened, silvery‑scaled patches. There is currently no cure and treatments only attempt to reduce the severity of symptoms. This study reports the case of a 36‑year‑old female who presented to the clinic with severe psoriasis and had been treated with topical steroid cream for the past 14 years. After adherence to prescribed dietary changes for 6 months, including abundant intake of vegetables, minimal consumption of meat, and ...
Nutrição e Psoríase – Artigo 21
Environmental Risk Factors in Psoriasis: The Point of View of the Nutritionist
Abstract: Psoriasis is a common, chronic, immune-mediated skin disease with systemic pro-inflammatory activation, where both environmental and genetic factors contribute to its pathogenesis. Among the risk factors for psoriasis, evidence is accumulating that nutrition plays a major role, per se, in psoriasis pathogenesis. In particular, body weight, nutrition, and diet may exacerbate the clinical manifestations, or even trigger the disease. Understanding the epidemiological relationship between obesity and ...
Nutrição e Psoríase – Artigo 20
Nutritional strategies for psoriasis: current scientific evidence in clinical trials
Abstract. – OBJECTIVE: Several nutritional strategies for the management of psoriasis are promising. Even if recent data support that nutrition may play a pivotal role in prevention and co-treatment and despite patient’s concerns regarding the best nutritional habits, the consensus regarding the nutritional strategies to be adopted lacks in clinical settings. In this manuscript, the effects of several nutritional strategies for psoriasis patients such as hypocaloric
diet, vitamin D, fish ...
Nutrição e Psoríase – Artigo 19
Vitamin D and its role in psoriasis: An overview of the dermatologist and nutritionist
Abstract Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory skin disease. Psoriasis lesions are characterized by hyperproliferation of epidermal keratinocytes associated with inflammatory cellular infiltrate in both dermis and epidermis. The epidermis is the natural source of vitamin D synthesis by sunlight action. Recently, a role for vitamin D in the pathogenesisof different skin diseases, including psoriasis, has been reported. Indeed, significant associations between low vitamin D status ...
Nutrição e Psoríase – Artigo 18
Systemic Role for Vitamin D in the Treatment of Psoriasis andMetabolic Syndrome
The novel discovery of the systemic role of vitamin D in the modulation of the immune system especially the Type 1 helper T cell (Th1) pathway reveals its potential for treating Th1 inflammatory diseases. Psoriasis has been recently established to be a systemic disease centered on inflammation and involvement of cytokines of the Th1 pathway. There is an increased prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with psoriasis.Metabolic syndrome also involves a proinflammatory state. This paper proposes the idea ...
