Publications by authors named "W V Wismer"
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- This qualitative study examined the impact of the Protein Recommendations to Increase Muscle (PRIMe) trial on cancer patients' relationships with food, specifically focusing on their nutritional challenges and experiences during the trial.
- Data was collected from 26 patients with stage II-IV colorectal cancer through semi-structured interviews, revealing five key themes that illustrate how their perspectives on nutrition changed and what factors affected their dietary adherence.
- The study highlights the emotional and psychological effects of dietary interventions, noting that patients developed new positive attitudes towards nutrition and faced both facilitators and barriers in maintaining dietary changes that promote protein intake.
Oat milk was fortified with β-glucan at a level that attains health benefits and protein at a level equivalent to that of cow's milk. This study aimed to identify consumer perceptions and evaluate the sensory attributes of fortified plain and chocolate oat milks. Oat milk consumers ( = 106) evaluated four samples: C (Control), 0Pro (6.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Dietary changes often accompany management of a cancer diagnosis, but how and why patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) make dietary decisions requires further investigation.
Objective: To learn about patients' food-related beliefs and understand whether and why dietary changes were made by patients starting chemotherapy after a CRC diagnosis.
Design: A qualitative semi-structured interview study was conducted as a secondary analysis among a subset of patients with stages II-IV CRC enrolled at baseline in a randomized controlled trial.
Background: Dietary fiber is an integral part of a healthy diet, but questions remain about the mechanisms that underlie effects and the causal contributions of the gut microbiota. Here, we performed a 6-week exploratory trial in adults with excess weight (BMI: 25-35 kg/m) to compare the effects of a high-dose (females: 25 g/day; males: 35 g/day) supplement of fermentable corn bran arabinoxylan (AX; n = 15) with that of microbiota-non-accessible microcrystalline cellulose (MCC; n = 16). Obesity-related surrogate endpoints and biomarkers of host-microbiome interactions implicated in the pathophysiology of obesity (trimethylamine N-oxide, gut hormones, cytokines, and measures of intestinal barrier integrity) were assessed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLabelling and information have been shown to increase acceptance of novel food technologies. The novel technology of 3 Dimensional Printing (3DP) of foods is not well known among consumers. The study aim was to investigate the effect of the 3DP label and benefits information on consumer acceptance and perception of plausible 3DP foods.
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