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Physical and Dietary Intervention with Opuntia ficus-indica (Nopal) in Women with Obesity Improves Health Condition through Gut Microbiota Adjustment

Obesity is a multifactorial disease resulting in excessive accumulation of fat. Worldwide, obesity is an important public health problem, affecting a large proportion of the world population. The tender cactus Opuntia ficus-indica, commonly known in Mexico as “nopal”, is widely distributed in this c...

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Autores principales: Corona-Cervantes, Karina, Parra-Carriedo, Alicia, Hernández-Quiroz, Fernando, Martínez-Castro, Noemí, Vélez-Ixta, Juan Manuel, Guajardo-López, Diana, García-Mena, Jaime, Hernández-Guerrero, César
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8912383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35267983
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14051008
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author Corona-Cervantes, Karina
Parra-Carriedo, Alicia
Hernández-Quiroz, Fernando
Martínez-Castro, Noemí
Vélez-Ixta, Juan Manuel
Guajardo-López, Diana
García-Mena, Jaime
Hernández-Guerrero, César
author_facet Corona-Cervantes, Karina
Parra-Carriedo, Alicia
Hernández-Quiroz, Fernando
Martínez-Castro, Noemí
Vélez-Ixta, Juan Manuel
Guajardo-López, Diana
García-Mena, Jaime
Hernández-Guerrero, César
author_sort Corona-Cervantes, Karina
collection PubMed
description Obesity is a multifactorial disease resulting in excessive accumulation of fat. Worldwide, obesity is an important public health problem, affecting a large proportion of the world population. The tender cactus Opuntia ficus-indica, commonly known in Mexico as “nopal”, is widely distributed in this country, Latin America, South Africa, and the Mediterranean area. Nopal cladodes are commonly marketed in different forms as fresh, frozen, or pre-cooked, and used as fresh green vegetable. The aim of this study was to evaluate the capability of nopal to improve the health condition of participants affected by obesity, in a physical and dietary intervention, through gut microbiota modification. These results were contrasted with the effect of nopal in the gut microbiota of normal weight participants. We describe the association among biochemical, anthropometric markers, and the gut microbiota diversity found in fecal samples of the obese and normal weight groups. The results presented in this work suggest that caloric restriction, addition of nopal to the diet and physical activity, promote changes in the gut microbiota in obese women, improving the host metabolism, as suggested by the correlation between some bacterial species with biochemical and anthropometrical parameters.
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spelling pubmed-89123832022-03-11 Physical and Dietary Intervention with Opuntia ficus-indica (Nopal) in Women with Obesity Improves Health Condition through Gut Microbiota Adjustment Corona-Cervantes, Karina Parra-Carriedo, Alicia Hernández-Quiroz, Fernando Martínez-Castro, Noemí Vélez-Ixta, Juan Manuel Guajardo-López, Diana García-Mena, Jaime Hernández-Guerrero, César Nutrients Article Obesity is a multifactorial disease resulting in excessive accumulation of fat. Worldwide, obesity is an important public health problem, affecting a large proportion of the world population. The tender cactus Opuntia ficus-indica, commonly known in Mexico as “nopal”, is widely distributed in this country, Latin America, South Africa, and the Mediterranean area. Nopal cladodes are commonly marketed in different forms as fresh, frozen, or pre-cooked, and used as fresh green vegetable. The aim of this study was to evaluate the capability of nopal to improve the health condition of participants affected by obesity, in a physical and dietary intervention, through gut microbiota modification. These results were contrasted with the effect of nopal in the gut microbiota of normal weight participants. We describe the association among biochemical, anthropometric markers, and the gut microbiota diversity found in fecal samples of the obese and normal weight groups. The results presented in this work suggest that caloric restriction, addition of nopal to the diet and physical activity, promote changes in the gut microbiota in obese women, improving the host metabolism, as suggested by the correlation between some bacterial species with biochemical and anthropometrical parameters. MDPI 2022-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8912383/ /pubmed/35267983 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14051008 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Corona-Cervantes, Karina
Parra-Carriedo, Alicia
Hernández-Quiroz, Fernando
Martínez-Castro, Noemí
Vélez-Ixta, Juan Manuel
Guajardo-López, Diana
García-Mena, Jaime
Hernández-Guerrero, César
Physical and Dietary Intervention with Opuntia ficus-indica (Nopal) in Women with Obesity Improves Health Condition through Gut Microbiota Adjustment
title Physical and Dietary Intervention with Opuntia ficus-indica (Nopal) in Women with Obesity Improves Health Condition through Gut Microbiota Adjustment
title_full Physical and Dietary Intervention with Opuntia ficus-indica (Nopal) in Women with Obesity Improves Health Condition through Gut Microbiota Adjustment
title_fullStr Physical and Dietary Intervention with Opuntia ficus-indica (Nopal) in Women with Obesity Improves Health Condition through Gut Microbiota Adjustment
title_full_unstemmed Physical and Dietary Intervention with Opuntia ficus-indica (Nopal) in Women with Obesity Improves Health Condition through Gut Microbiota Adjustment
title_short Physical and Dietary Intervention with Opuntia ficus-indica (Nopal) in Women with Obesity Improves Health Condition through Gut Microbiota Adjustment
title_sort physical and dietary intervention with opuntia ficus-indica (nopal) in women with obesity improves health condition through gut microbiota adjustment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8912383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35267983
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14051008
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