106 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. 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. Additional benefits include the lowering of plasma homocysteine by the addition of folic acid and pyridoxine. 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.

Dietary supplements and methods for management and control of body weight comprising at least one liver protecting agent and at least one mushroom in the form of powder, extract, or combinations thereof.

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.

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 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 2^N to 2^N−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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

The invention provides a new medical application of a Chinese traditional medicine fructus ligustri lucidi and the producing method of the extract thereof, which is produced by following steps: ethanol circumfluence, extracting and concentrating from the plant fructus ligustri lucidi to get an ethanol extract, separation by crystallization with the hydrochloric acid function, NaOH treating, again acid out, washing, drying, obtaining other effective components. Pharmacological experiments prove that the medicine can be used for treating the II-type diabetes and induced complication, which has the effects such as reducing the blood sugar, triglyceride, total cholesterin, and low density lipoprotein, and increasing the high density lipoprotein and etc. Furthermore, it can avoid the weight decrease and has a long action and no side effects.