Most medical experts agree that flaxseed can help manage\ncholesterol and fight inflammation, a new study suggests it may also help\nreduce obesity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Researchers from Sweden\u2019s University of Gothenburg and\nDenmark\u2019s University of Copenhagen conducted a study to determine if flaxseed\ncould positively impact obesity and metabolic health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The researchers put mice into four groups and gave each\ngroup a different diet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Group 1, which served as the control, was fed a standard\ndiet with 4.6% soy-derived fiber<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Group 2 ate a high-fat, no fiber diet<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Group 3 ate a high-fat diet with 10% indigestible\ncellulose fiber<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Group 4 ate a high-fat diet with 10% flaxseed fiber<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The scientists took measurements on everything from how much\nfood the mice ate, how much water they drank and their blood sugar levels, to\nhow much energy they expended, how much oxygen they used and how much carbon\ndioxide they produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After 12 weeks, the team took samples from each mouse\u2019s\nlarge intestine to determine the bacterial content. They found:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Group 2 (high-fat, no-fiber diet) had fewer \u201cgood\u201d gut\nbacteria, fewer \u201cgood\u201d fatty acids and high levels of the bacteria associated\nwith obesity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Groups 3 and 4 had a healthy balance of bacterial\ndiversity in the gut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Group 4 was more physically active and had less weight\ngain than the other groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The researchers theorize that the gut bacteria help break up\nthe fibers in the flaxseed\u2019s shell, which then produces more of the good fatty\nacids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur data suggest that flaxseed fiber supplementation\naffects host metabolism by increasing energy expenditure and reducing obesity\nas well as by improving glucose tolerance,\u201d the researchers write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The results were published in the American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism and in\nAPSselect.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most medical experts agree that flaxseed can help manage cholesterol and fight inflammation, a new study suggests it may also help reduce obesity. Flaxseed\u2019s effects on the gut Researchers from Sweden\u2019s University of Gothenburg and Denmark\u2019s University of Copenhagen conducted a study to determine if flaxseed could positively impact obesity and metabolic health. The researchers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703],"tags":[723,963,732,747,796,784],"class_list":["post-13331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss","tag-diet","tag-flaxseed","tag-nutrition","tag-obesity","tag-weight","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}