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The article reports on nutritional importance of beta-glucans. It notes that the nutritional importance of beta-glucans, for which diseases beta-glucans, are prophylactic or therapeutically successful. It adds that beta-glucans are linked together by beta-glycosidic binding. It states that the linear unbranched polysaccharides belong by definition to the group of fiber, depending on their structure.

The article discusses zinc supply in Germany and the use of zinc preparations in the treatment of hair loss, acne, and herpes. It notes that zinc is an essential trace element, which in the human organism cannot be synthesized. It adds that zinc is part of more than 100 enzymes and replicates iron. It states that a suboptimal zinc supply and a clinical zinc deficiency leads to diverse unspecific symptoms.

The article discusses nutritional therapy in metabolic syndrome. Topics discussed include dietary therapy based on scientific findings; obesity due to genetic predisposition, lack of exercise, stress as well as overeating which led to hypertension; and how nutritional therapy help cure hypertriglyceridemia and diabetes Mellitus type 2 or impaired glucose tolerance.

The article reports on prophylactic and therapeutic value of omega-3 fatty acids in different areas of the nutritional medicine. Topics discussed include the effectiveness of α-linolenic acid in the prophylaxis and treatment of chronic diseases; why the α-linolenic acid is the only essential Omega-3 fatty acid; and how α-linolenic acid act as cell membrane building block and as a precursor of an eicosanoid.