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  2. Glucose-galactose malabsorption - Wikipedia

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    Glucose-galactose malabsorption generally becomes apparent in the first few weeks of a baby's life. Affected infants experience severe diarrhea resulting in life-threatening dehydration, increased acidity of the blood and tissues (), and weight loss when fed breast milk or regular infant formulas.

  3. Beta-glucan - Wikipedia

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    Cellulose is an example of a (1→4)-β-D-glucan composed of glucose units. Beta-glucans, β-glucans comprise a group of β-D-glucose polysaccharides naturally occurring in the cell walls of cereals, bacteria, and fungi, with significantly differing physicochemical properties dependent on source.

  4. Indigestion - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms may arise from a complex interaction of increased visceral afferent sensitivity, gastric delayed emptying (gastroparesis) or impaired accommodation to food. Diagnostic criteria for functional dyspepsia categorize it into two subtypes by symptom: epigastric pain syndrome and post-prandial distress syndrome. [ 14 ]

  5. Food intolerance - Wikipedia

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    Food intolerance is a detrimental reaction, often delayed, to a food, beverage, food additive, or compound found in foods that produces symptoms in one or more body organs and systems, but generally refers to reactions other than food allergy. Food hypersensitivity is used to refer broadly to both food intolerances and food allergies.

  6. Is shredded cheese less healthy than block cheese ... - AOL

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    The cellulose used as a food additive is usually made from wood pulp or cotton lint, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an independent food and health watchdog group.

  7. Trehalose - Wikipedia

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    In humans, the only known function of trehalose is as a neuroprotective, which it accomplishes by inducing autophagy and thereby clearing protein aggregates. [ citation needed ] Trehalose has also been reported for anti-bacterial, anti-biofilm, and anti-inflammatory ( in vitro and in vivo ) activities, upon its esterification with fatty acids ...

  8. Milk allergy - Wikipedia

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    Milk allergy is distinct from lactose intolerance, which is a nonallergic food sensitivity caused by the lack of the enzyme lactase in the small intestines to break lactose down into glucose and galactose. The unabsorbed lactose reaches the large intestine, where resident bacteria use it for fuel, releasing hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane ...

  9. Lactose intolerance - Wikipedia

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    Lactose intolerance primarily refers to a syndrome with one or more symptoms upon the consumption of food substances containing lactose sugar. Individuals may be lactose intolerant to varying degrees, depending on the severity of these symptoms. Hypolactasia is the term specifically for the small intestine producing little or no lactase enzyme ...