Introduction: This review focuses on the efficacy and safety of Iranian medicinal plants found effective in the management of diabetes in humans and animals. Material and methods: EMBASE, Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and IranMedex databases were searched up to 8 October 2007. The search terms were “diabetes” and “plant”, “herb”, “traditional”, and “natural” or “herbal medicin...

Plantago is a cosmopolitan genus with approximately 200 species and various infrageneric classifications have been reported. In this study, the seed morphologies of 19 from Iran were studied documented in detail using scanning electron microscopy light microscopy. The grouped by statistical analyses such as minimum spherical cluster method based on Euclidean distance, principal coordinate analy...

Optimum levels and types of dietary fibre that provide the greatest beneficial effects on metabolic syndrome risk factors in overweight and obese individuals have yet to be determined in clinical trials. The present parallel design study compared the effects of fibre intake from a healthy diet v. a fibre supplement (psyllium) or a healthy diet plus fibre supplement on fasting lipids, glucose, i...

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The possibilities of vegetarian food in the concept wellness industry are considered. recipe composition and technology for preparing a cheese dessert is suggested, which advisable to use nutrition. developed product cheesecake, involves preparation dough tart, serves as basis dessert, using oat flour, psyllium, dates fruits walnuts. curd mass used fill tarts prepared on coconut milk walnuts, h...

Intervention Participants were allocated to receive 31 days of dietary fibre supplementation with psyllium 7.1 g/day (n=13); gum arabic 25 g/day (n=13); or placebo given as pectin 0.25 g/day (n=13). Supplements were mixed into fruit juice and divided into 2 servings for consumption during the morning and evening meals. Participants were instructed to maintain their usual diet. Those who were ta...

Pectin (PE), guar gum (CC), and psyllium (PSY) lower plasma low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol concentrations in guinea pigs with different orders of magnitude by inducing defined alterations in hepatic cholesterol homeostasis (Fernandez et al. 1994. Am.J Clin. Nutr. 59: 869-879; 61: 127-134 and 1995.J Lipid Res. 3 6 1128-1138). To further explore specific mechanisms responsible for the ...