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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
You're used to seeing salt and pepper shakers on the dinner table, but what if there was a third shaker with an ingredient to stop diabetes? Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge think they're on to something.
Adults with pre-diabetes are needed for the STARCH study. It focuses on a type of fiber called slowly digestible starch (SDS), also known as resistant starch.
“It's called resistant starch because your body doesn't digest it, but the bacteria in your gut do, and they produce a lot of beneficial compounds that we're only just beginning to understand,” said Dr. Courtney Peterson, a researcher taking part in the study.
The benefits of eating resistant starch have already been shown in mice, helping obese mice to slim down. Now the same theory is being tested in humans.
http://www.wafb.com/story/27919045/scientists-hope-new-type-of-starch-can-stop-diabetes
Adults with pre-diabetes are needed for the STARCH study. It focuses on a type of fiber called slowly digestible starch (SDS), also known as resistant starch.
“It's called resistant starch because your body doesn't digest it, but the bacteria in your gut do, and they produce a lot of beneficial compounds that we're only just beginning to understand,” said Dr. Courtney Peterson, a researcher taking part in the study.
The benefits of eating resistant starch have already been shown in mice, helping obese mice to slim down. Now the same theory is being tested in humans.
http://www.wafb.com/story/27919045/scientists-hope-new-type-of-starch-can-stop-diabetes