Obesity and mental health improvement following nutritional education focusing on gut microbiota composition in Japanese women: a randomised controlled trial

Uemura, Mayu; Hayashi, Fumikazu; Ishioka, Ken; Ihara, Kenji; Yasuda, Kazushi; Okazaki, Kanako; Omata, Junichi; Suzutani, Tatsuo; Hirakawa, Yoshihisa; Chiang, Chifa; Aoyama, Atsuko; Ohira, Tetsuya

doi:10.1007/s00394-018-1873-0

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“…Food is one of the most influential factors in people's health [1,2,5]. Experts recommend following a correct diet by adhering to dietary guidelines established by professionals [27]. In today's society, nutrition and dietetics are assuming an important value [32].…”

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“…In a survey of pre-university students, a need for these adolescents to receive nutritional information by specialists was observed, since the training they had already received was by nonexperts in the field of nutrition and dietetics [26]. A quality dietary education provided by qualified professionals can increase the indicators of obesity reduction and can facilitate the improvement of psychological factors [27].…”

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Education and Diet in the Scientific Literature: A Study of the Productive, Structural, and Dynamic Development in Web of Science

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Nutrition-related education is necessary to protect and improve the health status of schoolchildren and to minimize the risk of future diseases. The objective of this research was to analyze the trajectory and transcendence of the concepts “education” and “diet” in the Web of Science literature. The methodology focused on bibliometry, analyzing both the performance and the structural and dynamic development of the concepts through a co-word analysis. A total of 1247 documents were analyzed, and the results show that scientific production experienced a turning point in 2009, in comparison to the level of production reported in previous years. The medium of papers and the language of English were the most common. In relation to the research topic, before 2014, scientific production focused on medical and disease-related aspects; however, since 2014, it has focused on disease prevention and feeding. It was therefore concluded that the theme “diet and education” has been researched for more than 20 years, although it is only in the last decade that it has become more relevant—particularly studies focusing on disease prevention and the type of food, specifically fruit, which is presented as the most outstanding issue for researchers in this field of knowledge.

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“…Since over 80% of disease mortality in westernized nations is determined by modifiable variables-and indeed so too, are the collective grand challenges of the Anthropocene determined by larger-scale behaviors-in the clinic, this means a deeper layer of thought concerning "lifestyle" guidance. Personalized dietary plans can be constructed with the clinical endpoint (depression, for example [88]) and planetary sustainability in mind [89][90][91]. Thankfully, with the health benefits of whole plants foods (and the avoidance of ultra-processed foods [92]) those are often overlapping conversations [93][94][95].…”

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Clinical Ecology—Transforming 21st-Century Medicine with Planetary Health in Mind

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Logan³

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Four decades ago, several health movements were sprouting in isolation. In 1980, the environmental group Friends of the Earth expanded the World Health Organization definition of health, reminding citizenry that, “health is a state of complete physical, mental, social and ecological well-being and not merely the absence of disease—personal health involves planetary health”. At the same time, a small group of medical clinicians were voicing the concept of “clinical ecology”—that is, a perspective that sees illness, especially chronic illness, as a response to the total lived experience and the surroundings in which “exposures” accumulate. In parallel, other groups advanced the concept of holistic medicine. In 1977, the progressive physician-scientist Jonas Salk stated that “we are entering into a new Epoch in which holistic medicine will be the dominant model”. However, only recently have the primary messages of these mostly isolated movements merged into a unified interdisciplinary discourse. The grand, interconnected challenges of our time—an epidemic of non-communicable diseases, global socioeconomic inequalities, biodiversity losses, climate change, disconnect from the natural environment—demands that all of medicine be viewed from an ecological perspective. Aided by advances in ‘omics’ technology, it is increasingly clear that each person maintains complex, biologically-relevant microbial ecosystems, and those ecosystems are, in turn, a product of the lived experiences within larger social, political, and economic ecosystems. Recognizing that 21st-century medicine is, in fact, clinical ecology can help clear an additional path as we attempt to exit the Anthropocene.

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“…Of 47 included studies, there were 33 observational studies, nine randomized controlled trials, [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50] and five quasi-experimental studies (table 1). [51][52][53][54][55] The number of patients per study ranged from 12 to 6,627, with a total of 14,632 patients.…”

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Gut microbiome diversity measures for metabolic conditions: a systematic scoping review

Samuthpongtorn

Nopsopon

Pongpirul

2021

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Objective Evidence on the association between the gut microbiome and metabolic conditions has been increasing during the past decades. Unlike the straightforward identification of beneficial non-pathogenic bacteria as a potential probiotic for clinical use, the analysis of gut microbiome diversity is more complex and required a better understanding of various measures. We aim to summarize an elaborated list of gut microbiome diversity measures. Design Systematic search was conducted in three databases: PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Central Register of Clinical Trials for randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental and observational studies for the relationship between gut microbiota and metabolic diseases published in 2019 with the English language. Results The measurement methods of alpha diversity and beta diversity were explored. Of 5929 potential studies, 47 were included in the systematic review (14632 patients). Of 13 alpha diversity measures, the Shannon index was the most commonly used in 37 studies (78.7%), followed by Chao1 index (19 studies), Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU) richness (15 studies), Simpson index (13 studies), and Abundance-based Coverage Estimators (ACE) index (10 studies). Of 2 beta diversity measures, the UniFrac was the most commonly used in 24 studies (unweighted 17 studies and weighted 16 studies), followed by Bray-Curtis dissimilarity (16 studies). Conclusion Various measurement of gut microbiome diversity have been used in the literature. All measurements have unique characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages which lead to different usage frequency. The measures were chosen considering cost, simplicity, and types of research.

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Obesity and mental health improvement following nutritional education focusing on gut microbiota composition in Japanese women: a randomised controlled trial

Cited by 38 publications

References 37 publications

Education and Diet in the Scientific Literature: A Study of the Productive, Structural, and Dynamic Development in Web of Science

Education and Diet in the Scientific Literature: A Study of the Productive, Structural, and Dynamic Development in Web of Science

Clinical Ecology—Transforming 21st-Century Medicine with Planetary Health in Mind

Gut microbiome diversity measures for metabolic conditions: a systematic scoping review

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