Comparison of Carbohydrate Digestion between Japanese and Polish Healthy Subjects

• Tsumura Yuki

  Graduate School of Human Life Science, Osaka City University, Japan

• Hirota Naoko

  Department of Living Sciences, Nagano Prefectural College, Japan

• Tokura Hiromi

  Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• Sone Yoshiaki

  Graduate School of Human Life Science, Osaka City University, Japan

• Lesinski Filip

  Plmonology Hospital of Lung Disease

• Rutkowska Danuta

  Plmonology Hospital of Lung Disease

• Barinow-Wojewodzki Aleksander

  Plmonology Hospital of Lung Disease

Abstract

We have revealed that light environment affects digestion and absorption of dietary carbohydrates in the gastrointestinal tract. This experimental result supposes that the efficiency of carbohydrate absorption may differ among people who live in different latitudes, such as Japanese and Polish people, at the same calendar season. In order to prove this hypothesis, we have been comparing the efficiency of carbohydrate absorption using the breath hydrogen test in Japan and Poland. Here, we report the comparison of the result obtained in the summer of 2004 as the following; (1) Orocecal transit time (OCTT) for indigestible trisaccharide of Japanese subjects was significantly longer than that in Poland (p=0.043). (2) On the ingestion of minestrone, the amount of unabsorbed carbohydrate of Japanese subjects (which was estimated as trisaccharide equivalent) was significantly larger than that of Polish subjects (p=0.006).

Journal

• Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY and Applied Human Science

  Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY and Applied Human Science 24 (4), 507-509, 2005

  Japan Society of Physiological Anthropology

Keywords

• breath hydrogen test
• gastrointestinal activity
• carbohydrate absorption

Details

• CRID: 1390001204787796224
• NII Article ID: 110002964092
• NII Book ID: AA11462444
• DOI: 10.2114/jpa.24.507
• ISSN: 13475355
• ISSN: 13453475
• PubMed: 16079608
• Web Site: http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/10780770
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2006279339
• Text Lang: en
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