A new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition examined the effects of xylitol consumption on several metabolic parameters and visceral fat accumulation. Researchers used Sprague-Dawley rats and fed them a high fat diet for eight weeks. They divided the in three groups, the first one which was the control group wasn’t [...]
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Xylitol and diabetes parameters study (animal)
A recent study published at the Journal of Medicinal Food compared the effects of xylitol consumption with those of sugar consumption on various diabetes-associated parameters in rats (Islam MS, 2011). The rats where divided in three groups, control, xylitol group and sugar group. For three weeks these groups were given water, a xylitol water solution [...]
Xylitol as an Antiirritant
A recent study published in the scientific journal Dermatitis examined the possible antiirritant effects of various agents, one of those was xylitol. Antiirritants are used to prevent or treat skin irritations. Besides xylitol, the other agents that were tested were: glycerol taurine glycine mannitol In order to test those agents, researchers induced skin irritation by [...]