breast cancer and endometrial cancer in Asian women [61,62]
In the European Union, the Food Safety Authority (EFSA) relies on the Qualified Presumption of Safety (QPS) approach for microorganisms in foods and has issued strict guidance on health claims, which, in practice, has made approval of probiotic health claims very difficult
As the digested carbohydrate, glucose, is mainly absorbed through apical GLUT2 in addition to SGLT1 and GLUT5 into small intestinal cells, inhibition of GLUT2 is a strategy for suppression of hyperglycemia in T2DM patients
However, these observational studies have inherent limitations, including potential residual confounding (as some registries lack complete data on important cancer risk factors like smoking), selection bias, and the challenge of detecting rare events
The goal is not to undo the progress achieved through weight loss but to complete the transformation by restoring proportion and contour