107 results about "Weight decreasing" patented technology

An improved ultra-high fiber supplement that promotes satiety, caloric reduction, and weight loss. The supplement comprises guar, oat, psyllium, locust bean gum, pectin, green tea, multi-anthocyanadins, pyridoxine, and folic acid. The supplement can exist as a liquid, semi-solid, or solid comestible. It improves cardiovascular health and reduces cardiovascular inflammation and the risk of heart disease. The addition of antioxidants, including green tea, improves weight loss, and general and cardiovascular health. Also it reduces serum lipoprotein oxidation and risk of free-radical related diseases. Consumption of the supplement aids in reducing absorption and assimilation of ingested toxins. A method of providing an ultra-high fiber comestible that is highly palatable and can be used to supplement nutrition and to manage and prevent diet-related diseases is disclosed. Further embodiments increase fiber and other nutrients in the diet and helps manage and prevent all diet-related diseases.

Disclosed herein are dietary formulations and methods to mimic the physiological, biochemical and gene expression effects of calorie restriction without altering dietary intake. The formulations include combinations of nutrients that have various intended functions in the body, falling into three or more of the following activities; (1) antioxidant activity; (2) inhibition of glycation damage; (3) reduction of body weight and fat; and (4) promotion of high insulin sensitivity and low blood insulin / glucose; and (5) anti-inflammatory activity.

The invention involves a medication for weight loss by means of appetite suppression and a method for administering this medication to humans and other mammals. The medication comprises potassium butyrate or closely related chemical compounds, together with chemicals which facilitate the dispersion of the medication in the stomach.

The current invention is directed towards a system for and a method of modifying eating habits of a user. The system and method utilize a set of fixed volume containers that are graduated to provide a user means to control the volume of food consumed over time. In accordance with the instant invention, the contents of the containers are consumed over time according to a schedule which identifies the appropriate containers and the frequency of the meals to be consumed each day. Preferably, the method of the instant invention is utilized for weight reduction, wherein the volume of food consumed per meal is reduced over time while frequency of meals consumed over time is simultaneously increased over time in order to balance the nutritional intake of the user. The fixed volume containers can be pre-filled or provide the user with a measuring means to portion his / her own food. The system and method can be customized to suit the dietary goals of an individual and can be used along with a printed and / or electronic schedule and / or a workbook to further motivate the user to modify his / her eating habits to achieve a set of user goals.

The present invention relates to weight control, control of body fat and food intake, and provides useful methods for treating, inter alia, obesity, diabetes and insulin insensitivity, and conditions, diseases, and disorders relating thereto. The invention also relates to methods of identifying useful compounds relating to weight loss, food intake, diabetes, and obesity, among other things, based on the discovery that inhibiting Kv1.3 activity mediates decreased food intake, weight loss, decreased body fat, increase glucose uptake, and increased insulin sensitivity, among other things.

A sleep condition measuring apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine a first timing indicating that the user has fallen asleep and a second timing indicating that the user has waken up, based on body motion of a user, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first index indicating activity of a sympathetic nerve of the user and a second index indicating activity of a parasympathetic nerve of the user, based on a pulse wave interval of the user, a calculation unit configured to calculate a dominance level of the second index over the first index every predetermined time, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a third index indicating quality of sleep of the user from the first timing until the second timing, using the dominance level and a weight decreasing as time elapses from the first timing.

A bit-depth optimization engine reduces the hardware cost of a neural network. When training data is applied to a neural network during training routines, accuracy cost and hardware costs are generated. A hardware complexity cost generator generates costs for weights near bit-depth steps where the number of binary bits required to represent a weight decreases, such as from 2N to 2N−1, where one less binary bit is required. Gradients are generated from costs for each weight, and weights near bit-depth steps are easily selected since they have a large gradient, while weights far away from a bit-depth step have near-zero gradients. The selected weights are reduced during optimization. Over many cycles of optimization, a low-bit-depth neural network is generated that uses fewer binary bits per weight, resulting in lower hardware costs when the low-bit-depth neural network is manufactured on an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC).

The invention discloses a fast two-stage filter algorithm applied to a high precision digital weighing sensor, which comprises the following steps of: (1) as required by system, selectively designing two filters and setting a stability threshold and a stability condition; (2) opening a first-stage filter for basic data smoothing and for fast tracking for data variation; (3) opening a second-stage digital filter for further smoothing data when data output of the first-stage filter meets the stability condition; (4) closing the second-stage filter when data output of the first-stage filter does not meet the stability condition in the weight increasing or weight decreasing process of the system; and (5) repeating the steps (3) to (4) until the measurement comes to an end. The fast two-stage filter algorithm of the invention realizes seamless dynamic cascade of the filters at two stages by the method of setting the stability threshold and the stability condition, and compared with the traditional two-stage digital filter cascading algorithm, shortens the time for the reestablishment of the filters in the weight increasing or weight decreasing process of the system.

The invention relates to a fresh-keeping method for lotus root, and especially relates to a fresh-keeping method for performing fresh-keeping processing on fresh-cut lotus root slices by using a composite fresh-keeping agent prepared from multiple reagents. The method comprises: selecting onion, squeezing juice, mixing with phytic acid, disodium ethylene diamine tetraacetate, ascorbic acid, L-cysteine and the like, adjusting pH value with citric acid to obtain the composite fresh-keeping agent; immersing the pre-processed lotus root slices in the composite fresh-keeping agent for fresh-keeping processing; and finally employing vacuum package, and placing at appropriate conditions for refrigeration. Due to the fact that the composite fresh-keeping agent prepared from the multiple reagents is utilized as the fresh-keeping agent of the fresh-cut lotus root slices, the fresh-keeping effect is good, and the fresh-keeping period reaches five months or more, so that the problems such as browning, hardness reducing, weight decreasing and the like during storage of the fresh lotus root slices are solved. Additionally, the fresh-keeping method has the advantages of being simple in processing, low in cost, green, environment-friendly, convenient and the like.

This application relates to methods and tests that allow for the establishment of personalized weight-loss programs for a subject based upon the subject's metabolic genotype in key metabolic genes. Kits and methods are disclosed for determining a subject's metabolic genotype, which may be used to select an appropriate therapeutic / dietary regimen or lifestyle recommendation based upon the likelihood of a subject's responsiveness to certain diets and activity levels. Such a personalized weight-loss program will have obvious benefits (e.g., yield better results in terms of weight loss and weight maintenance) over traditional weight-loss programs that do not take into account genetic information.

The invention provides (i) a method of treating metabolic syndrome in an animal, (ii) a method of suppressing the appetite of an animal, (iii) a method of treating obesity in an animal, (iv) a method of reducing the weight of an animal in need thereof, (v) a method of reducing a blood lipid level in an animal in need thereof, (vi) a method of treating non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in an animal, and (vii) a method of inhibiting adipogenesis. The methods comprise administering an effective amount of an active ingredient, wherein the active ingredient comprises a diketopiperazine, a prodrug of a diketopiperazine or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt of either of them to the animal. The invention also provides a kit comprising a container holding a diketopiperazine, a prodrug of a diketopiperazine or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt of either of them; and instructions for administration. The diketopiperazines have the formula given in the application.

A physical fitness system incorporating aspects of scuba diving and hyperbaric pressure therapy is described. An enclosure, such as a cage or elevator, is selectively placed in a body of water, such as an ocean, lake, river, or pool, wherein one or more individuals can remain or exercise (e.g., scuba dive) there, for a sufficient period of time and for a sufficient number of times in order to realize a health benefit, such as reduced weight, reduced blood pressure, increased metabolic rate, increased energy levels, and / or the like. Additionally, hyperbaric pressure therapy can also be employed in conjunction with the use of the enclosure. For example, the enclosure, such as a swimming pool, can be situated in a selectively sealable structure. The structure is first sealed and then the pressure inside the structure is raised to a sufficient level to produce a hyperbaric pressure state therein. The individuals in the water-filled enclosure would then remain or exercise there for a sufficient period of time and for a sufficient number of times to realize a health benefit. An oxygen-rich air environment can also be provided in the sealed structure, as well.

A method of producing glycogen comprising a step of: allowing a branching enzyme having the ability to synthesize glycogen to act on a substrate in a solution to produce a glycogen, wherein the substrate is an ±-glucan being linked mainly with ±-1,4-glucosidic bonds and having a degree of polymerization of 4 or more, and the number-average molecular weight of saccharides in the solution before initiation of the reaction is more than 180 but not more than 150,000. (The branching enzyme activity of the branching enzyme) / (the molecular-weight-decreasing activity of the branching enzyme) can be 500 or less. The branching enzyme can be a thermostable branching enzyme.

An efficient weight-lossing medicine or health-care food is prepared from carnitine (40-45 wt.%), chitosan (30-35), konjak (20-25) and flavouring (5-10).

The invention belongs to the field of the pharmaceutical detection and discloses a method for detecting a macromolecular substance in a reduning injection. The method for detecting the macromolecular substance in the reduning injection is established by taking thymosin alph1 as a reference and adopting a molecular exclusion chromatography by virtue of the characteristics of a reduning injection producing process. The method comprises the following steps: eluting components in a detected sample according to a molecular weight decreasing sequence, and with a peak appearing earlier than a peak appearance time of a reference substance as the macromolecular substance, and calculating the content of the macromolecular substance by adopting an area normalization method. Through the inspection of repeatability, degree of separation, detection limit, degree of precision, molecular weight logarithm-retention time curve and solution stability, the method for detecting the macromolecular substance in the reduning injection is proved to be simple and convenient to operate, high in sensitivity and good in repeatability, can be used as an quality internal control method of the reduning injection and plays a role in guiding the quality control of traditional Chinese medicine injections.

The present invention concerns exploiting a characteristically negative behavior, such as habitual behavior or addiction, for example, for a beneficial purpose. In particular aspects, an individual desires eating healthy comestibles that comprises a positively-reinforcing compound, thereby consuming greater quantities of one or more healthy comestibles. In particular aspects, an obese or overweight individual loses weight and / or lowers BMI by consuming at least one healthy comestibles comprising the positively-reinforcing compound. In other aspects, an individual with a medical condition that could benefit from one or more particular comestibles consumes the one or more particular comestibles comprising a positively-reinforcing compound.

The invention relates to a control system and a display method for weight management information. The control system for weight management information comprises a weight obtaining module, an input module and a historical record module. A weight management module comprises a weight plan generation module, a calculation module for calculating the process data related to progress management, and a display module for displaying the performing state of a weight plan, wherein the display module is composed of two parallel progress bars with an equal length, and the both ends of each of the two progress bars are parallel; the first progress bar expresses the planned weight-decreasing / weight-increasing progress; the second progress bar expresses the condition of the actually-finished progress; and a dynamic icon is configured on the two progress bars respectively, and whether the actually-finished progress is consistent with the planned progress in the present target phase is expressed by whether the positions of the dynamic icons in the progress bars are the same, so that the weight change process of a user and progress finish condition can be displayed intuitionally.

A media handling system includes a platform, a bin supporting the platform below and for undergoing movement toward and away from a sheet feeding position, a first motion transmitting assembly coupled between the platform and bin and tailored to counterbalance the weight of the platform and any stack such that as the weight decreases the platform is lifted toward the sheet feeding position to maintain the stack top below a lower limit position thereof, a control mechanism to sense the position of the stack top relative to a given range between the lower limit position to an upper home position, and a second motion transmitting assembly drivingly coupled to the platform via the first motion transmitting assembly and responsive to the control mechanism sensing to cause the first motion transmitting assembly to further lift the platform to and maintain the stack top position within the given range.

A method of monitoring item shuffling in a post-scan area of a self-service checkout terminal having a post-scan shelf, a bagwell with a grocery container positioned therein, and a weight scale positioned so as to detect weight of items positioned both on the post-scan shelf and in the grocery container, includes the step of detecting removal of a first number of items from the post-scan shelf with the weight scale and generating a first weight decrease value in response thereto which corresponds to the weight of the first number of items. The method also includes the step of detecting placement of a second number of items into the grocery container with the weight scale and generating a first weight increase value in response thereto which corresponds to the weight of the second number of items. The method further includes the step of comparing the first weight decrease value to the first weight increase value and generating a first match control signal in response thereto if the first weight decrease value matches the first weight increase value.

In a method for weighing a number of items, such as letters to be franked, on a transport belt that moves over a weighing plate, the base of which is formed by the transport belt, the transport speed of the belt is slowed within a measurement time range, that starts from the beginning of a weighing event on the weighing plate until a stable weight measurement occurs, and is accelerated outside of this measurement time range, after the occurrence of a stable weight value for a current item on the weighing plate, the next-following item is transported onto the weighing plate by the belt, and the weight of the next-following item is determined by the weight increase due to inflow of the next-following item and the weight decrease due to outflow of the current item.

The present invention provides an antiobesity composition comprising extract of Melissa as an active ingredient, use of Melissa extract, and a method for suppressing obesity using the composition. Also, the present invention provides an antiobesity composition comprising extract of Melissa and extract of Mori Folium as active ingredients, use of a mixture of Melissa extract and Mori Folium extract, and a method for suppressing obesity using the composition. Further, the present invention provides an antiobesity composition comprising extract of Melissa, extract of Artemisia and extract of Mori Folium as active ingredients, use of a mixture of Melissa extract, Artemisia extract and Mori Folium extract, and a method for suppressing obesity using the composition. When the present compositions are administrated into genetically obese mice or high fat diet-induced obese mice, the present compositions reduced body weight, body fat and gonadal fat, and reduce blood cholesterol level and obesity-related blood glucose level. Also, the present compositions suppress hypertrophy of adipocytes, and inhibit the accumulation of lipid in the liver by reducing the size and number of lipid vacuoles. Furthermore, in human clinial trial the present compositions show that body weight, PIBW, body fat, especially visceral fat, apolipoprotin B concentration, ratio of total cholesterol / HDL cholesterol and ratio of LDL cholesterol / HDL cholesterol are significantly decreased, and atherogenic index is improved and muscle mass is increased. Thus, the present compositions can be usefully applied as antiobesity composition for reduction of body weight and suppression of abdominal fat, particularly, visceral fat.

The present invention provides, compositions, devices, and methods for affecting, among other things, weight loss and / or weight control, by sequestering nutrients or other compounds such as toxins from absorption in the digestive tract. The compositions, devices, and methods employ one or more members made of a compressible, absorbent matrix material. In various embodiments, the matrix material is suitable for routine use. The compressible absorbent matrix material has a size, shape and / or geometry configured for efficient packing into a small space, and / or configured to absorb and substantially retain digested material in the stomach. The devices and compositions may further comprise one or more hydrogel(s), soluble or insoluble fibers, waxes and / or gums to provide the desired mechanical properties and / or absorptive or shielding properties.

The invention discloses a structure design method of a carbon fiber composite engine hood. The method comprises the steps of establishing a mathematical model for size optimization of the composite engine hood by taking parameters such as the ply angle, the ply thickness and the thickness of a core material of a carbon fiber composite one-layer ply as the design variables during structure optimization and conducting the calculations: (1) the design target: the objective function for the size optimization design of the composite engine hood is to make the engine hood to be minimum in weight; (2) design variables; (3) design constraints; (4) calculation conditions; and (5) optimizing the analysis result. When compared with that before optimization, the composite engine hood after optimization has a weight decrease of about 16%, and is basically unchanged in various performance parameters, wherein the first-order frequency is increased, the maximum displacements under static conditions are increased, the stiffness is decreased, but all the changes are within the allowable ranges.

The invention relates to a method for preserving a lotus root with garlic extract and onion extract. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) preparing crude garlic extract; (2) preparing crude onion extract; (3) preparing compound preservative: weighing the crude garlic extract and dissolving the crude garlic extract in water, adding the crude onion extract, pullulan and konjac gum in sequence after the crude garlic extract is fully dissolved and stirring the solution uniformly, adjusting the pH of the solution to 4.6-4.8 with citric acid and diluting the solution with water, blending the solution with ultrasonic wave, and cooling the solution to room temperature for standby use, then the compound preservative is prepared; (4) selecting the lotus root raw materials; (5) washing and cutting the lotus root; (6) sterilizing; (7) keeping brittleness; (8) filming; and (9) vacuum packing and refrigerating the lotus root. According to the method for preserving the lotus root with the garlic extract and the onion extract, the garlic extract and the onion extract are used to prepare the compound film preservative serving as the preservative of the lotus root with skins, the compound film preservative has a good preservation effect, and the preservation period can be up to 5 months or above, and thus the problems of browning, hardness decrease and weight decrease in storing the fresh lotus root are solved.

The present invention discloses a biosensor and a method using the same to perform a biotest. The biosensor of the present invention integrates a SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) device and a test polymer to detect an analyte in a liquid specimen. The test polymer reacts with the analyte. After reaction, the substantial weight decrease of the test polymer causes the variation of the SAW characteristics. The attributes and content of the analyte is detected and determined according to the variation of the SAW characteristics.

A dog food composition containing a small but sufficient amount of simmondsin component to provide simmondsin within the range of 0.1% by weight of said dog food dry matter mix to about 1.5% by weight of said dog food dry matter mix. Also disclosed as part of the invention is a method of weight reduction of companion pets by adding to pet food the above-defined range of simmondsin, contributed by simmondsin, simmondsin analogues or mixtures thereof, such as derived from defatted jojoba seed meal, and thereafter feeding the pet food to a companion pet on a regular and sustained basis to achieve weight reduction then weight maintenance.

A composition having weight reduction capability, weight controlling activity, or both comprising (a) a bupropion compound and (b) a food component and a method of treatment associated with it.