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New Canadian Food SmartList Released

July 3 -- A new update for the Canadian Food SmartList was released as well as a new version for Blackberrys without a touch screen running OS 4.2.1 or greater. Information on 418 items was updated in this release and 35 new products were added to our SmartList. For more information, or to try a free demo, visit our store.

Clan Thompson Releases Its Food SmartList for Blackberry

June, 25, 2009 - We released a Blackberry food SmartList! This version is for BlackBerrys without a touchscreen (but a touchscreen version will be coming soon).

If you'd like to be notified when it's available, send an email to celiac@clanthompson.com. For more information about our new Blackberry food SmartList - or to download a FREE DEMO - go here.

Researchers First To Link Intestinal Inflamation With Systemic Chromosome Damage

Newswise - UCLA scientists have linked for the first time intestinal inflammation with systemic chromosome damage in mice, a finding that may lead to the early identification and treatment of human inflammatory disorders, some of which increase risk for several types of cancer.

Researchers found that local intestinal inflammation induced DNA damage to lymphocytes of the peripheral blood circulating throughout the body. This means that chromosome damage was not limited to the intestine, but involved tissues of the body distant from the site of inflammation. The team found single- and double-strand DNA breaks in the blood, and chromosome damage in peripheral blood indicating systemic genetic damage.

Inflammatory diseases have been linked to some lymphomas and abdominal, liver and colorectal cancers, said Robert Schiestl, a professor of pathology, radiation oncology and environmental health sciences and a Jonsson Cancer Center scientist. If inflammation can be found early - before any symptoms arise - and the diseases treated immediately, it may prevent the damage that eventually leads to these cancers, he said. Read more.

Intestinal Bacteria Associated With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Intestinal permeability and an overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine are both associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). These findings are revealed in a new study in the June issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). The article is also available online at Wiley Interscience (www.interscience.wiley.com).

Previous studies have suggested that bacteria from the intestine might play a role in NAFLD, which is the hepatic component of the Metabolic Syndrome. NAFLD can worsen to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, and some experts have wondered if liver exposure to bacteria from the gut could promote this progression.

Researchers, led by Antonio Grieco of Rome, investigated gut permeability in patients with NAFLD and compared the results to patients with untreated celiac disease, who are known to be prone to this condition, and to healthy volunteers. Their study included 35 patients with biopsy-confirmed NAFLD, 27 with celiac disease and 24 healthy volunteers. The researchers checked the level of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in each participant using glucose breath testing. They assessed intestinal permeability by looking at urinary excretion of Cr-EDTA. And they examined the integrity of tight junctions within the gut through duodenal biopsies. Read more.

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