36 results about "Dietary restrictions" patented technology

Beta-hydroxybutyrate mineral salts in combination with medium chain fatty acids or an ester thereof such as medium chain triglycerides were used to induce ketosis, achieving blood ketone levels of (2-7 mmol/L), with or without dietary restriction. The combination results in substantial improvements in metabolic biomarkers related to insulin resistance, diabetes, weight loss, and physical performance in a short period of time. Further, use of these supplements to achieve ketosis yields a significant elevation of blood ketones and reduction of blood glucose levels. Use of these substances does not adversely affect lipid profiles. By initiating rapid ketosis and accelerating the rate of ketoadaptation, this invention is useful for the avoidance of glucose withdrawal symptoms commonly experienced by individuals initiating a ketogenic diet, and minimizes the loss of lean body mass during dietary restriction.

The present invention is directed to systems, apparatus and methods for creating derivatives of at least one form of HDL without substantially affecting LDL. These derivatives of HDL are particles with reduced lipid content, particularly reduced cholesterol content. These particles have the capacity to bind cholesterol and are administered to a patient to enhance cellular cholesterol efflux and reduce cholesterol levels in cells, tissues, organs, and blood vessels. The present method is useful for treating atherogenic vascular disease and may be combined with other therapies such as statins, inhibitors of cholesterol absorption, niacin, anti-inflammatories, exercise and dietary restriction.

An object of the invention is to provide a composition containing a higher fatty acid derivative, which can be easily produced at low cost, is effective as an agent for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis induced by various factors such as diet, dietary restriction, etc., is highly safe, and can be used regularly; and foods and drinks comprising the composition, which is effective as an agent for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis induced by various factors such as diet, dietary restriction, etc., and suitable as foods and drinks for hospitals, healthy drinks or foods, feeds, etc. The composition containing a higher fatty acid derivative comprises one kind of higher fatty acid derivatives as an active ingredient and is used as an agent for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. The higher fatty acid derivatives include octacosanal. The foods and drinks comprise the composition with a higher fatty acid derivative.

A system for improving health and monitoring diet has been developed which enables a consumer before making important decisions which effect health to consider health, nutrition, dietary, budget, and time information resources more easily before decisions are made. The system has a variety of user inputs that enable the user to access information easily and enter information easily, so that the personal profile and health history and diet information is up-to-date. This system is adjustable to contain additional modules of information such as dietary restrictions which can be used to regularly recommend or restrict purchase decisions at the point of sale, storage, preparation, or consumption.

Systems and methods for obtaining content over the Internet, identifying text within the content (e.g., such as closed captioning or recipe text) or creating text from the content using such technologies as speech recognition, analyzing the text for actionable directions, and translating those actionable directions into instructions suitable for network-connected cooking appliances. Certain embodiments provide additional guidance to avoid or correct mistakes in the cooking process, and allow for the customization of recipes to address, e.g., dietary restrictions, culinary preferences, translation into a foreign language, etc.

Embodiments presented herein provide techniques for generating a recipe using text analytics methods. A server application receives a search query for a specified dish (e.g., from a client computer). The application retrieves recipes relevant to the specified dish (e.g., by crawling websites on the Internet) and extracts text from each recipe. The application performs a variety of text analytics methods on the text to identify different ingredients and preparation methods in creating the dish. Additional analytics are performed to loosely predict a recipe that conforms to the search query as well as dietary restrictions of a user.

A system and method for dynamic pricing of food items that are configured to apply one or more algorithms to prepare adjustments in the food item ingredient composition (e.g., the recipe of a food item) to accommodate a desired price, caloric content, dietary restriction requirement, and/or nutritional value. The system will process the customer-user's inputs of a modification of the ingredients for the food item. System processes for recipe modifications can be made in real-time, and may be locally processed or remotely processed, e.g., via access to a network server. Optionally, some or all of the system processes for recipe modifications may be preprocessed and stored in a system-accessible database. In some embodiments, a custom designed secure hardware component is deployed in the system in order to protect confidential pricing data, and gives a tool for managing the dynamic sales for a food retail establishment.

A vending system is disclosed and claimed. In particular, the disclosed vending machine system allows multiple vendors to sell food items through a vending machine. The vending machine provides multiple locked bins, each of which can authenticate to a single vendor. Also, the vending machine implements price adjustment rules, such as raising the price of a particular item during, before, and after a high traffic event. In addition, customer dietary restrictions can be tracked, and purchases of food items that would violate those dietary restrictions can be prevented. The vending system allows a consumer to perform contactless vending transactions, with the identity of the consumer being verified through biometrics and a camera. Upon verification of the consumer, the vending system transacts payment for selected items, dispenses items in a contactless manner, updates inventory of items, records the purchase history of consumer, and provides indisputable visual media evidence of the transaction.

The invention provides a composition for comprehensively improving hyperglycemia population health status and a preparation method thereof. The composition comprises, by weight, 80-160 parts of spirulina, 30-70 parts of chlorella pyrenoidosa, 0.5-5 parts of Haematococcus pluvialis powder, 15-40 parts of L-arabinose, and 1-10 parts of chromium-enriched yeast. The composition is obtained mixing of the substances. All components of the composition have a synergistic effect, while controlling blood sugar, the composition prevents oxidative stress, supplement the body with an exogenous antioxidant, prevents and alleviates the damage of complications caused by hyperglycemia, provides timely supplementation to nutrient lack caused by metabolic disorder or dietary restriction of diabetic population, and pays attention to improvement of comprehensive nutrition and health status.

The invention discloses a buccal tablet which is kept in mouth much longer than general tablet (compared with the tablet of the same weight). The tablet is a multi-purpose food prepared for oral cleaning and healthcare, smoking replacement, dietary restriction, weight reduction and driving refreshing, which belongs to the field of pharmaceutical excipient and food science and technology. The tablet can be melted completely and kept exponentially in the mouth based on the characteristics of crude fiber breakage and reduced protein solubility of raw grains rich in protein and coarse fiber during expansion. A test shows that the producing method of the tablet in the invention can be kept in mouth for 20 min or more, much longer than the tablet of the same weight and ordinary sugar. So the tablet can realize the effects of good taste and complete melting.

A method and system for identifying a potential allergen/irritant from prepared food via the Internet. The allergens/irritants are selected by a user at a client system and transmitted to a server system. The server system receives (from mobile device and guest-user) or retrieves (from registered user) information including location, identification, and dietary restriction. The server system queries the restrictions against an ingredient database to determine required elimination or possible substitution. Considering received/retrieved data and server-generated parameters, the server system generates and returns customized suggestions to user.

Disclosed are methods and compositions for reducing coronary artery stenosis, restoring blood flow to infarcted myocardium, improving myocardial perfusion, reducing heart attacks or other adverse cardiovascular events, or treating symptoms of inadequate myocardial function in a mammal involving administering to the mammal (a) a compound that includes eicosapentaeneoic acid or docosahexaeneoic acid and (b) a cholesterol-lowering therapeutic, combined with dietary restrictions (resulting in aggressive loading of marine lipids), whereby a serum LDL concentration of less than 75 mg/dl (and preferably less than 55 mg/dl) is achieved. One particular method involves administering to the mammal a combination that includes (a) a compound that includes an eicosapentaeneoic or docosahexaeneoic acid (for example, a marine lipid) and (b) a cholesterol synthesis or transfer inhibitor, and which may also optionally include aspirin and/or niacin. The methods and compositions of the invention may also further include a bile acid sequestrant and/or buspirone. Also disclosed are methods for treating heart disease that involve administration of buspirone.

The invention provides a method for regulating exosome release, and medical application of the method in exosome release regulation. The exosome release is promoted by inhibiting the activity of rapamycin target protein mTORC1. The activation of the mTORC1 is inhibited by means of rapamycin, so that the exosome release is increased. By depriving nutrients, growth factors and dietary restrictions,the activity of the mTORC1 is inhibited, and the exosome release is promoted. The mTORC1 regulates the exosome release by means of a Rab27A-dependent mechanism. mTOR is associated with Rab27A, and theinteraction between the Rab27A and the mTOR is enhanced by means of rapamycin treatment. The exosome release, accompanied by autophagy, is affected by changes in nutrients and growth factor conditions. According to the exosome release, the cellular contents are released out of cells by means of fusion with the plasma membrane, so that the loss of the cellular contents is caused. The method can regulate the exosome release and provides a feasible scheme for medical application in the exosome release regulation.

The invention relates to a method for breeding safe carnivorous field mice. The method mainly comprises the following steps that 1 iron cage breeding chambers are used for breeding the field mice; 2 before the field mice which are captured from fields or purchased from livestock farms enter the cages, epidemic disease detection is conducted to the field mice; 3 aiming at the breeding mode of the field mice, group breeding and free hybridization can be adopted, aphrodisiac can be used, and if a female mouse is found pregnant, the female mouse is bred in an isolated mode; 4 fodder of the field mice is diversified, but dried and mixed nutrition fodder serves as the principal thing, and breeding mouse obesity can be controlled by adopting dietary restriction and dietary deprivation; 5 in the breeding process of the field mice, the main diseases to prevent and treat are constipation, diarrhea, skin parasites and skin germs, regular detection and treatment are conducted, and the cages are cleaned and sterilized regularly; 6 after the number of the field mice is increased, the breeding cages are added or enlarged, the field mice which grow over a year are taken out of the cages for serving as commodity carnivorous field mice regardless of the size of the field mice, and the safety of field mouse meat food is facilitated.

The invention discloses an external traditional Chinese medicinal plaster used for treating neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain. The external traditional Chinese medicinal plaster mainly comprises radix clematidis (pungent), radix angelicae pubescentis (tepidity), caulis spatholobi (warm), radix angelicae (warm), phryma leptostachya (warm), flos carthami (warm), angelica sinensis (pungent and warm), lycopodium clavatum (warm), fructus cnidii (warm), musk (bitter), borneol (pungent), lamiophlomis rotata (bitter), incised notopterygium (warm) and radix saposhnikoviae (warm). The external traditional Chinese medicinal plaster has the advantages of having good curative effect on the neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain and effectively preventing recurrence; in the process of treatment, a patientcan avoid economic expenditure and physical pain brought by surgery, pain is small and does not affect normal life and work, dietary restrictions are not needed, the patient can be treated with the plaster wherever, and the therapeutic effect is achieved after the plaster is used for 1-2 times.

A role of molecular mechanisms determine the longevity of an organism, particularly, method of mimicking benefits of dietary restriction by transiently upregulating endoplasmic stress response.