donderdag 25 juni 2009

Probiotics plus prebiotics: more than 1+1

A combination of pre- and probiotics is sometimes more effective than any of the components by themselves, concludes PhD candidate Bastiaan Schouten. He recently published an article on this issue in the Journal of Nutrition, and will defend his thesis this November.

Cow’s milk allergy is the most common allergy in infants. Around 3 to 5 percent of babies in Western countries are diagnosed with this condition. There is currently no cure. There is, however, increasing evidence that pre- and probiotics can play a role in preventing the development of allergies. One of the people working on this issue is Bastiaan Schouten, PhD candidate at the department of Pharmacology and Pathophysiology at Utrecht University, which has a strategic alliance with Danone Research – Centre for Specialised Nutrition.
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