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A patient is provided with an increased sense of satiety by increasing resistance to the outflow of food from the stomach and through the intestines. Stomach emptying may be slowed with devices implantable within the gastrointestinal tract below the stomach. Implants are preferably removable and can include artificial strictures that may be adjustable to vary the rate of stomach emptying. Slowing gastric emptying may induce satiety for a longer period and may therefore reduce food consumption. Many of the embodiments include intestinal liners or sleeves, but they need not. The resistor concept may be applied to a simple anchor and resistor without a long liner.

A patient is provided with an increased sense of satiety by increasing resistance to the outflow of food from the stomach and through the intestines. Stomach emptying may be slowed with devices implantable within the gastrointestinal tract below the stomach. Implants are preferably removable and can include artificial strictures that may be adjustable to vary the rate of stomach emptying. Slowing gastric emptying may induce satiety for a longer period and may therefore reduce food consumption. Many of the embodiments include intestinal liners or sleeves, but they need not. The resistor concept may be applied to a simple anchor and resistor without a long liner.

A patient is provided with an increased sense of satiety by increasing resistance to the outflow of food from the stomach and through the intestines. Stomach emptying may be slowed with devices implantable within the gastrointestinal tract below the stomach. Implants are preferably removable and can include artificial strictures or apertures that may be adjustable or elastic to vary the rate of stomach emptying. Slowing gastric emptying may induce satiety for a longer period and may therefore reduce food consumption. Many of the embodiments include intestinal sleeves or sleeves, but they need not. The resistor concept may be applied to a simple anchor and resistor without a long sleeve.

A feeding apparatus includes an outer wall and an inner wall joined at an upper end. The inner wall includes a side wall and a bottom wall. An inner space is defined by the side wall, the bottom wall, and the upper end. One or more obstructions are provided in the inner space, each obstruction extending upright from the bottom wall and away from the sidewall. A food placement area is formed between adjacent obstructions. The rate of food consumption of an animal is reduced by the obstructions.

The invention discloses a fermented feed additive, a preparation method and application thereof. The fermented feed additive is prepared by fermenting mixed strains and mixed auxiliary materials consisting of monosodium glutamate protein, bean pulp, bran, cottonseed meal, corn fibers, rice bran and powdered rice hulls, wherein the mixed strains are obtained by mixing activated strains of lactobacillus acidophilus, lactobacillus planetarium, lactobacillus casei, saccharomyces cerevisiae, bacillus subtilis and bacillus licheniformis in a proportion of (1-5): (1-5): (1-5): (1-5): (1-5): (1-5); and the dosage of the fermented feed additive is 5 to 100 percent of the weight of the animal feed when used for the animal feed. According to the fermented feed additive, the bean pulp, the bran, the cottonseed meal and other raw auxiliary materials are sufficiently utilized, so that the food consumption in the animal feeding process is reduced; the fermented feed additive can be used to partiallyor completely replace the animal feed, and antibiotic medicaments can be reduced or prevented from being used; and no medicament is left, so that the feeding cost of farmers is reduced.

Combination therapies for treating obesity or related eating disorders and / or reducing food consumption are described herein which comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of a cannabinoid-1 (CB-1) receptor antagonist and an intestinal-acting microsomal triglyceride transfer protein inhibitor (MTPi) to an animal in need of such treatment. The CB-1 receptor antagonist and intestinal-acting MTPi may be administered separately or together.

An apparatus and method for treating obesity comprising an inflatable balloon attached to an inner portion of a belt. The belt is wrapped around an individual's abdomen in the vicinity of the stomach. The balloon is inflated prior to consuming a meal and left in place for a certain period of time. The apparatus is then removed from the individual's abdomen.

Disclosed are methods for modifying or regulating at least one of glucose or lipid metabolism disorders which comprises administering to a human or vertebrate subject a D1 dopamine agonist in conjunction with a dopamine D2 agonist where the conjoined administration is effective to improve at least one of the following lipid and glucose metabolic indices: body weight, body fat, plasma insulin, plasma glucose and plasma lipid, and plasma lipoprotein. In preferred embodiments, the administration of the D1 dopamine agonist and the D2 dopamine agonist is conducted at a predetermined time.

Disclosed are methods for modifying or regulating at least one of glucose or lipid metabolism disorders which comprises administering to a human or vertebrate subject a D1 dopamine agonist in conjunction with a dopamine D2 agonist where the conjoined administration is effective to improve at least one of the following lipid and glucose metabolic indices: body weight, body fat, plasma insulin, plasma glucose and plasma lipid, and plasma lipoprotein. In preferred embodiments, the administration of the D1 dopamine agonist and the D2 dopamine agonist is conducted at a predetermined time.

Various aspects and embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to compositions that can be used to increase physical and mental energy, reduce the sensation of hunger. At least some of the composition disclosed herein can be used to obviate or moderate some of the discomfort which may be associated with initiating or maintaining reduced calorie and / or ketogenic diets.

Provided are methods for reducing food consumption, and methods for altering behavioral, neurological, psychological, or physiological responses to a food portion, mainly for use by an obese or overweight user, or by a user at risk of weight gain. Also provided are user-interactive systems and apparatuses for employing such methods.

The invention relates to a method for producing white spirit by utilizing waste spent grains, belonging the wine-making field. The technical problem solved by the invention is to provide a method for producing high quality white spirit by utilizing waste spent grains. The method comprises the following steps: 1) distiller's yeast is added in waste spent grains to mix evenly and stack; 2) when the temperature of the waste spent grains 20cm below the surface of the heap is 45-65 DEG C, the heap is broken and cooled to 25-35 DEG C, the waste spent grains are placed in a cellar to ferment; and 3) after the fermentation, the product is discharged from the cellar and then distilled to obtain the white spirit. The method uses the white spirit waste spent grains with rich nutrients as fermentation source and adopts the piling production technology of the Maotai-flavor liquor; the obtained white spirit has the delicate and mellow taste of the luzhou-flavor liquor and the mellow and refreshing taste and fragrant Maotai-flavor of the Maotai-flavor liquor; and the product quality reaches the level of the high-quality wine. By adopting the method, the consumption of grains can be reduced and the yield of the high-quality wine can be increased, thus the method has wide application prospect.

Extracts of vetiver oil were found to significantly repel termites. In one extract, nootkatone was isolated and found to be a significant repellent and toxicant of termites. Nootkatone significantly decreased food consumption, decreased tunneling behavior, and increased mortality in termites. Nootkatone is an effective repellent and toxicant of termites either by itself or as an addition to other materials or substrates, including mulches made from vetiver grass roots or other wood products. Nootkatone can also be used to protect construction wood from attack by Formosan subterranean termites. Nootkatone as a repellent is non-toxic to humans and other mammals and is environmentally safe. In addition, α-cedrene was found to be a weak termite repellent; and both zizanol and bicyclovetivenol were found to be repellents and toxicants of termites.

The invention discloses an integration processing method of a high-efficient corn straw biological feed, and belongs to the field of biological feeds. Corn straw is subjected to three-step fermentation, so that a superior microorganism coarse feed for ruminant animals, with high efficiency and low cost, is produced in a large-scale manner. The integration processing method comprises the following steps of firstly, based on the corn straw, performing high-efficient pure solid cultivation on a white rot fungus enzyme preparation, then converting the cultivated white rot fungus enzyme preparation in large inoculum amount to a first-stage fermentation medium of the corn straw, and besides, inoculating serial lignocelluloses degradation bacteria and candida utilis bacteria for synergistic rapid degradation and transformation; then adding bacillus and saccharomyces cerevisiae for second-stage fermentation; and using lactic acid bacteria for third-stage anaerobic fermentation so as to obtain finished products. The raw materials used by the integration processing method do not need to be sterilized, the finished products do not need to be dried, lysozymes are enriched, the cost is low, the lignin is notably reduced, and genuine protein is increased to 12% or above. The high-efficient corn straw biological feed can be used as a superior coarse feed and a protein grain feed for cattle and sheep, and the additive quantity can reach 60% or above; the additive quantity can also be about 10%, so that the high-efficient corn straw biological feed is used for simple stomach animals. The technique is high in scalability and integrity, and the economic and social benefits are notable.

The present invention is directed to a compound according to formula, (R2R3)-B1-A1-c(A2-A3-A4-A5-A6-A7-A8-A9)-A10-A11-A12-A13-B2-B3-R1, that act as ligands for one or more of the melanocortin receptors, the pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, to methods of using such peptides to treat mammals and to pharmaceutical compositions useful therefore comprising said peptides.

The present invention is directed to a compound according to formula,(R2R3)-B1-A1-c(A2-A3-A4-A5-A6-A7-A8-A9)-A10-A11-A12-A13-B2-B3-R1, that act as ligands for one or more of the melanocortin receptors, the pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, to methods of using such peptides to treat mammals and to pharmaceutical compositions useful therefore comprising said peptides.

An apparatus and method for treating obesity comprising an inflatable balloon attached to an inner portion of a belt. The belt is wrapped around an individual's abdomen in the vicinity of the stomach. The balloon is inflated prior to consuming a meal and left in place for a certain period of time. The apparatus is then removed from the individual's abdomen.

The invention provides a critic acid production fermentation technology, which is characterized in that: during a critic acid fermentation process, protease is added into a fermentation tank through a fed-batch method so as to hydrolyze the protein in a culture medium into nitrogen sources, which can be rapidly utilized by bacterial strains, such as small molecular peptides, amino acid, and the like. The method can increases the content of amino acid, which can be directly utilized by bacterial strains, in a fermentation fluid; also can fully dissolves out the starch particles, which combine with the protein, reduces the viscosity of the fermentation fluid, improves the oxygen transmission efficiency in the fermentation fluid, promotes the bacterial strains to produce acid, solves the problem that in the current critic acid production process the protein utilization effect is bad in the early fermentation period, shortens the fermentation period, reduces the residual total sugar and grain consumption for fermentation, and increases the economic profits for entrepreneurs.

The invention discloses a method for fermenting and producing citric acid. The method can effectively maintain the activity of the glucoamylase by adding glucoamylase at 36-38°C after cooling down and adding strains, and the utilization rate of the glucoamylase is high; in the fermentation liquid Adding glucoamylase can effectively overcome the problems of high fermentation residual sugar and fermented grain consumption and low conversion rate in the existing technology; the advantage of the present invention is that compared with the prior art, the output of a single tank with the same feeding amount is increased by 2% Above, the grain consumption of fermentation liquid is reduced by 20-30kg / t, and the fermentation conversion rate is increased by more than 2.5%.

The present invention is directed to compounds according to formula,(R2R3)-A1-c(A2-A3-A4-A5-A6-A7-A8-A9)-A10-R1,and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof that act as ligands for one or more of the melanocortin receptors, to methods of using such compounds to treat mammals and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds.

The invention provides an enzymolysis method for a starchy material, which is characterized by comprising the following steps of: (1) mixing starch slurry prepared from the starchy material and partial amylase to obtain a mixture, contacting the mixture with steam, ensuring that the mixture contacted with the steam has the temperature of 100 to 120DEG C, and keeping at the temperature for 4 to 10 minutes; and (2) flashing the mixture contacted with the steam in the step (1), cooling to the temperature of between 85 and 99DEG C, and mixing with the rest amylase for enzymolysis. By the method, the protein flocculation effect can be improved, so that solid and liquid are easy to separate, the content of residual starch in enzymolysis residue is reduced, and the dextrose equivalent (DE) value of enzymolysis clear liquid is effectively improved; in addition, the sugaring yield is improved, the sugaring grain consumption is reduced, and the grain consumption and cost for producing citric acid are reduced.

The invention discloses a production method of a large-scale rice wheat straw microorganism feed, and belongs to the field of biological feeds. Rice wheat straw is used as a main carbon source, and inorganic nitrogen is used as a main nitrogen source. The production method comprises the following steps of performing high-efficient pure solid cultivation on a white rot fungus enzyme preparation, then converting the cultivated white rot fungus enzyme preparation in large inoculum amount to a first-stage fermentation medium of the rice wheat straw, and besides, inoculating serial lignocelluloses degradation bacteria and candida utilis bacteria for synergistic rapid degradation and transformation; adding bacillus and saccharomyces cerevisiae for second-stage fermentation; and using lactic acid bacteria for third-stage anaerobic fermentation so as to obtain finished products. The lignin of the straw biological feed is greatly reduced, genuine protein is increased to 11%b or above, and the raw materials do not need to be sterilized; the finished products do not need drying treatment, lysozymes are enriched, and the production cost is extremely low. The large-scale rice wheat straw microorganism feed can be used as a superior coarse feed and a protein grain feed for cattle and sheep, and the additive quantity can reach 60% or above; the additive quantity can also be about 10%, so that the large-scale rice wheat straw microorganism feed is used for simple stomach animals. The large-scale rice wheat straw microorganism feed is suitable for mass production, and the feeding and economic effects are obvious.

The invention relates to a method for producing citric acid through fermentation, in particular to a method for producing citric acid through complete cassava fermentation, which comprises work procedures of pulverization, size mixing, liquefaction, filtration and fermentation. Before the fermentation, acid compound enzyme is adopted for saccharifying raw materials; and during the fermentation, protein slag or protein meal is adopted as a nitrogen source. The protein slag or protein meal is added for supplementing the fermentation nitrogen source, the goal of complete non-grain fermentation is reached, the defect of poor oxygen dissolution effect in the fermentation process caused by too high cassava high-sugar fermentation material concentration can also be overcome through the addition of a filtration process, simultaneously, the residue carbon sources in the protein slag or the protein meal are utilized, the integral utilization of raw materials is realized, and the fermentation grain consumption is reduced.

The invention relates to low carbohydrate beer, which comprises water, alcohol, carbohydrate, protein, carbon dioxide, mineral composition and other compositions, wherein, the carbohydrate is equal to or less than 1.6 percent (m / m), and the heat is equal to or less than 108KJ / 100ml. The manufacturing method of the beer is that: crushing malt, carrying out saccharification and fermentation, filtering and packaging, wherein, the selected raw material is two-rowed malt; the saccharification temperature is 62-65 DEG C and the saccharification time is 60-100 minutes, efficient enzyme preparation is added in the process of saccharification, thereby the fermentation degree of the beer reaches a higher value; maltogenic amylase and pullulanase can be separately selected or selected in a blending way as the efficient enzyme preparation. Compared with the traditional beer, the carbohydrate of the beer is reduced by more than 56 percent, the heat is reduced by more than 36 percent, the rate of dilution can be enlarged to 70 percent, and the main fermentation time is shortened, thereby reducing grain consumption, improving production efficiency, saving production cost and improving product quality.

The invention relates to the technical field of bee raising, in particular to a multifunctional bee mite controller and a mite control method. The multifunctional bee mite controller comprises a heating device arranged on the inner side of a bar frame, the heating device comprises a base frame and an electric heater arranged on the base frame, the base frame comprises two oppositely fitted frames, at least two comb foundation grids are arranged on the frames, comb foundations are arranged on the inner sides of the comb foundation grids, the electric heater is arranged between the two oppositely fitted frames, fitted with the bottoms of the comb foundations and provided with relatively independent heating areas, the number of the heating areas is equal to that of the comb foundation grids, and the positions of the heating areas correspond to those of the comb foundation grids. Compared with the prior art, the multifunctional bee mite controller has the advantages of convenience in operation, economical and practical properties, poisonless and harmless properties, high mite control efficiency and capability of promoting bee colony reproduction.

The present invention is directed to compounds according to formula, (R2R3)-A0A1-c(A2-A3-A4-A5-A6-A7-A8-A9)-A10-R1, wherein the definitions of A1 to A10 and R1 to R3 are provided in the application, and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, that act as ligands for one or more of the melanocortin receptors, to methods of using such compounds to treat mammals, and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds.

Enjoyment of food is affected by delivering a scent to the consumer independently of the food. To deliver the scent simultaneously and independently, a separate scent delivery device is used. The method can be used to increase enjoyment of food, decrease enjoyment of food, or provide virtual reality enjoyment of food. The method can increase enjoyment of food when the food is being consumed, thus, increase food consumption by an anorexic person. The method can decrease enjoyment of food when the food is being consumed, thus, decrease consumption and help obese people eat less.

The invention relates to a low-energy-consumption production method of an aroma-type white spirit, belonging to the technical field of wine making. The invention aims to provide a low-energy-consumption production method of an aroma-type white spirit. The method comprises the following steps: a. adding 200-250kg of grains and 40-50kg of brans into every 2.0m<3> of lees discharged out of the cellar, evenly mixing, distilling on a retort to take the white spirit, continuing distillation until the white spirit is discharged out of the retort after the white spirit flow finishes, cooling, adding 40-50kg of moderate-temperature yeast into every 2.0m<3> of lees, and putting into the cellar to carry out primary fermentation; b. taking out the mature lees of the primary fermentation, adding 30-40kg of brans into every 2.0m<3> of lees, evenly mixing, distilling on a retort to take the white spirit, cooling, adding 40-50kg of moderate-temperature yeast into every 2.0m<3> of lees, and putting into the cellar to carry out secondary fermentation; and c. taking out the mature lees of the secondary fermentation, and distilling to take the white spirit.

The invention discloses a composite eucommia ulmoides leaf feed additive and a preparation method thereof. The composite eucommia ulmoides leaf feed additive is mainly prepared by mixing the following components in parts by weight: 30-60 parts of eucommia ulmoides leaf extract, 40-70 parts of mango leaf extract, 3-8 parts of taurine and 1-3 parts of tyrosine, wherein the eucommia ulmoides leaf extract is prepared through the steps of drying and crushing eucommia ulmoides leaves, subsequently adding water, carrying out ultrasonic extraction, concentrating, drying and the like; the mango leaf extract is prepared through the steps of drying and crushing mango leaves, subsequently adding water, carrying out ultrasonic extraction, concentrating, drying and the like. The components are sufficiently mixed by using methods of stirring, mixing and the like. When being used, the feed additive is sufficiently mixed with a formula feed or raw feed materials, such as corn, bean pulp and straws. The composite eucommia ulmoides leaf feed additive product can be applied to feeding on a variety of livestock, in particular to pigs, has a remarkable breeding effect and is simple in manufacturing process, energy-saving and time-saving and easy to realize industrial production.

The present invention is directed to compounds according to formula, (R2R3)-A1-c(A2-A3-A4-A5-A6-A7-A8-A9)-A10-R1, and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof that act as ligands for one or more of the melanocortin receptors, to methods of using such compounds to treat mammals and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds.