Extra weight loss from dietary fibres extracted from seaweed

A new research project conducted at LIFE shows that dietary fibres from brown algae boost the sensation of satiety, thereby making people eat less and lose more weight.

 

Previous studies have shown that a fibre-rich diet makes it easier to maintain weight, and now a new PhD project documents that dietary fibres from brown algae, the so-called alginates, are excellent at creating an 'artificial feeling of fullness' in the stomach:

 

- Over a three-year period, we have studied the effect of taking different alginate doses. We are able to demonstrate that the healthy subjects who took alginates and were also allowed to eat as much as they wanted felt less hungry and ate less than the subjects not drinking fibre drinks with alginates, says PhD student Morten Georg Jensen, who arrived at the findings with his colleagues.

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Morten Georg Jensen will be defending his PhD thesis, Effect of alginate fiber supplementation in regulation of appetite, body weight and metabolic risk factors, on Wednesday 14 December 2011 at 1 pm at the Faculty of Life Sciences, lecture hall A1-01.01., Bülowsvej 17, 1870 Frederiksberg C.