Abstract: Provided is an infant nutrition comprising at least one protease inhibitor, a process for preparing such an infant nutrition and use of the infant nutrition for the treatment and/or prevention of childhood obesity and secondary disorders resulting from childhood obesity.

Abstract: Provided is an infant nutrition comprising at least one protease inhibitor, a process for preparing such an infant nutrition and use of the infant nutrition for the treatment and/or prevention of childhood obesity and secondary disorders resulting from childhood obesity.

Abstract: Provided is an infant nutrition comprising at least one protease inhibitor, a process for preparing such an infant nutrition and use of the infant nutrition for the treatment and/or prevention of childhood obesity and secondary disorders resulting from childhood obesity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the prevention and/or treatment of overweight in mammals. More particularly the invention is concerned with such a method comprising the enteral administration to a mammal of a preparation comprising an effective amount of a combination of dill or an isolate thereof and one or more components capable of stimulating in vivo lipolysis. Suitable examples of components capable of stimulating in vivo lipolysis include methylxanthines, adrenergic amines, Paullinia cupana or an isolate thereof, Zingziber officinale or an isolate thereof, Camellia sinensis or an isolate thereof, Ilex paraguayiensis or an isolate thereof. Another aspect of the invention relates to a solid or semi-solid unit dosage, preferably selected from the group consisting of tablets, pills, microparticles, microspheres, suppositories, capsules, caplets and the like, that is suitable for enteral unitary administration to human subjects and other mammals comprising: a.

Abstract: There is provided a method for the prevention or treatment of overweight. More particularly, the invention relates to a method for the treatment or prevention of overweight in a mammal wherein the method comprises the enteral administration of Bacopa plant material to said mammal in an amount effective to reduce the mammal's overweight or to prevent the occurrence of overweight.

Abstract: Method of inhibiting intestinal carbohydrate absorption in mammals and a dietetic preparation for use in such a method. The method comprises orally administering a dietetic preparation to such mammal, the preparation containing a-hydroxy carboxylic acid component, whose intestinal absorption is sodium dependent, in an amount equivalent to at least 1 wt. % citric acid, so as to provide a-hydroxy carboxylic acid component in an amount which is therapeutically effective to achieve inhibition of intestinal absorption of carbohydrate. The dietetic preparation is in the form of an oral dosage unit of between 0.1 and 100 grams, and contains between 2 and 90 wt. % of a-hydroxy carboxylic acid component, between 1 and 80 wt. % of a carbohydrate absorption inhibitor and between 97 and 9 wt. % of pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the treatment and/or prevention of overweight and to a method for the reduction of a mammalian appetite. The present method comprises the administration to the mammal of a dosage containing an effective amount of a flavonoid selected from the group consisting of chrysin, flavone, precursors of these flavonoids that are convertible into the one of these flavonoids by gastrointestinal hydrolytic cleavage and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a composition and a method for the treatment of mood disorders, in particular of treating, preventing or alleviate depression, mood disorders or insufficient mood, obesity, overweight, premenstrual syndrome, craving, carbohydrate craving, chocolate craving, menopausal complaints, erectile dysfunction and/or reduced libido. The composition contains cocoa or one or more of its pharmacologically active components, and a dopamine D2 receptor agonist.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the prevention and/or treatment of overweight in mammals. More particularly the invention is concerned with such a method comprising the enteral administration to a mammal of a preparation comprising an effective amount of a combination of dill or an isolate thereof and one or more components capable of stimulating in vivo lipolysis. Suitable examples of components capable of stimulating in vivo lipolysis include methylxanthines, adrenergic amines, Paullinia cupana or an isolate thereof, Zingziber officinale or an isolate thereof, Camellia sinensis or an isolate thereof, Ilex paraguayiensis or an isolate thereof.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of inhibiting intestinal carbohydrate absorption in mammals and a dietetic preparation for use in such a method. More particularly the present invention is concerned with a method of inhibiting intestinal absorption of carbohydrates in a mammal, which method comprises orally administering a dietetic preparation to such mammal, said preparation containing &agr;-hydroxy carboxylic acid component, whose intestinal absorption is sodium dependent, in an amount equivalent to at least 1 wt. % citric acid, so as to provide &agr;-hydroxy carboxylic acid component in an amount which is therapeutically effective to achieve inhibition of intestinal absorption of carbohydrate. Citric acid is an example of an &agr;-hydroxy carboxylic acid which may suitably employed.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a composition and a method for the treatment of mood disorders, in particular of treating, preventing or alleviating depression, mood disorders or insufficient mood, obesity, overweight, premenstrual syndrome, craving, carbohydrate craving, chocolate craving, menopausal complaints, erectile dysfunction and/or reduced libido, The composition contains cocoa or one or more of its pharmacologically active components, and a dopamine D2 receptor agonist.