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Health-related aspect of whey proteins
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R Shahbazi   , H Davoodi * , S Esmaeili , AM Mortazavian |
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Abstract: (7969 Views) |
| Whey proteins possess important nutritional and biological properties with regard to promotion of health, as well as prevention of diseases. Antimicrobial and antiviral actions, immune system stimulation, anticarcinogenic activity, impact on weight loss and other metabolic features have been associated with whey proteins. In addition, whey protein possesses high nutritional value and it has a high concentration of all the essential amino acids and branched-chain amino acids. In this article some health-related aspects of whey proteins are reviewed.
Pubmed, Sciencedirect, Springer and Google scholar databases were searched in order to achieve the desired articles. Cellular, animal as well as human studies that have been conducted from 1980 till 2012, were recruited in this investigation.
Researches indicate the benefits of whey on health-related aspect. Several studies demonstrate impacts of whey proteins on prevention of tumor incidence and growth as well as inhibition of carcinogenesis. Whey enhances the immune system activity through stimulation of immune responses, increasing the number of immune cells and increase in glutatione level. Furthermore, the inhibitory activity of whey proteins against a wild range of bacteria and viruses such as gram-negative organisms and human immunodeficiency virus has been showed. Whey also contributes to the regulation of body weight and energy intake by providing satiety signals that affect both short-term and long-term food intake regulation.
Collectively, with regard to the broad biological functions of whey protein in association with health condition as well as preventin and treatment of diseases, consumption of these proteins in healthy subjects and patients could be beneficial.
Keywords: Whey protein, Nutritional value, Therapeutical effects, Biological feature |
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| Keywords: Whey protein, Nutritional value, Therapeutical effects, Biological feature |
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Article type: Review |
Subject:
nutrition
Received: 2013/03/17 | Accepted: 2013/11/19 | Published: 2013/11/19
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