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🗓️ 1 April 2015
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on YacL. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. |
0:37.2 | I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute? |
0:39.8 | People with type 2 diabetes have to keep a close watch on their blood glucose levels. |
0:45.3 | Now a small study finds that having the day's biggest meal at breakfast and smallest meal at dinner |
0:50.6 | offers much better glucose control than having a small breakfast and big dinner, |
0:55.2 | even when the total intake during the day was exactly the same, 1,500 calories. The study by |
1:00.9 | researchers from Israel's Tel Aviv University, Sweden's Lund University, and other institutions |
1:06.4 | is in the journal Diabetology. 18 adult volunteers, 10 women and 8 men, all with type 2 diabetes, were assigned by a coin flip to either the big breakfast diet or the big dinner one. |
1:19.2 | In the big dinner diet, participants spent a week having about a 200-calorie breakfast, a 600-calorie lunch, and a 700-calorie dinner. |
1:27.3 | The big breakfast diet was the reverse with the 700-calorie meal in the morning, the 600-calorie |
1:32.8 | lunch, and a light-200-calorie dinner. |
1:35.7 | After two weeks, the group switched meal plans so that the Big Dinner folks became the |
1:40.1 | Big Breakfast folks and vice versa. |
1:42.3 | And overall, various measures of blood, glucose and insulin levels were significantly better |
1:47.8 | in those who had their big meal in the morning. |
1:50.7 | The next steps are longer studies with more participants. |
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