Senticore's New Portfolio Companies Combine Resources to Conduct $1,286,897 Study to Develop and Market Adolescent Adult and Bo
June 22 2006 - 12:07PM
PR Newswire (US)
SAN ANTONIO, June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Senticore, Inc.'s
(OTC:SNIO) (BULLETIN BOARD: SNIO) wholly-owned subsidiary,
Integrative Health Technologies Inc. (IHT), describes how its four
portfolio companies are working together to conduct a $1,286,897
study to develop and market a bone-health program for adolescents
and adults. The grant, jointly funded by AlgaeCal International and
IHT prior to its merger with Senticore, involves 400 subjects and
is being conducted by investigators from two major universities.
Funded jointly by AlgaeCal International (ACI) and IHT prior to its
merger with Senticore, the study involves 400 subjects and is being
conducted by investigators from two major universities. The study
is in response to a "call to action" issued in the U.S. Surgeon
General's (SG) 2004 Bone Health report citing studies that 85% of
adolescent girls and 65% of boys do not consume sufficient calcium
and bone building nutrients for normal bone growth. The SG reported
that the lack of adequate nutrition during these critical
bone-building years has placed America's bone health in jeopardy.
The Report encourages development of programs to increase bone
health by improving diets, increasing physical activity, and
improving "health literacy" and to " ... get started by taking
action today in homes, health care settings, and communities across
our nation ... you are never too old or too young to improve your
bone health," pointed out the SG. Using AlgaeCal's plant-derived
calcium with natural occurring magnesium and 73 other trace
minerals, IHT's portfolio companies (http://www.ihtglobal.com/ )
conducted an exhaustive review of the research on bone-building
ingredients. This research supported the addition of higher than
recommended levels of vitamins D and K-2 to the blend and
incorporation of recently discovered bone-building mineral,
strontium, into the adult program. The blend was incorporated into
bone-health cookies along with Z-trim fat-replacer;
health-enhancing Enova oil (http://www.enovaoil.com/ ), a product
of a joint venture between Japanese Kao Corporation and Archer
Daniels Midland; and Fibersol-2 (http://www.matsutaniamerica.com/ )
soluble dietary fiber. Over the next year, a series of pilot
studies were conducted using adolescents and adults to evaluate the
taste and texture of the cookies with finer and finer grinds of the
calcium. A significant amount of scientific research supports the
effectiveness of using pedometers as a behavior modification
technique to increase physical activity levels. Therefore, a
pedometer-based behavior modification plan was added to the program
that contained forms for tracking and graphing daily step totals
and charts for estimating calorie and glycemic levels of foods.
After completion of the pilot studies refining the plan, formal
clinical trials began in early 2006 involving 400 subjects,
including adults, adolescents and children. Subjects completed
self-reports, bone density x-rays (DEXA), and 43 blood chemistries
at baseline, and will complete the same tests after 90-days,
6-months, one-year and five-years. "In addition to the benefits
derived from the research data," said Samuel Keith, CEO of the
Research Center, "the children, adolescents and adults are all
being provided with comprehensive test reports of their bone
density and blood chemistries whose cost would be prohibitive to
most of our subjects." "In return for their support of our clinical
trials," said Dean Neuls, President of AlgaeCal International, "we
have a long-term strategic relationship with Senticore providing
them with a royalty based on our gross national and international
sales of AlgaeCal as well are the bone-health program we are
presently studying," added Neuls. "In our view, developing and
marketing the bone-health program that incorporates the use of
bone-health supplements to improve diets, a practical
pedometer-based program to increase physical activity and feedback
of test and tracking data to improve health literacy is an example
of the synergy of our portfolio companies," said Gilbert Kaats,
Senticore's CEO. Contact: Sam Keith 210-824-4200 DATASOURCE:
Senticore, Inc. CONTACT: Sam Keith of Senticore, Inc.,
+1-210-824-4200 Web site: http://www.ihtglobal.com/
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