AGENT FOR PREVENTING/AMELIORATIG LIFE STYLE-RELAETD DISEASES CONTAINING TURMERIC ESSENTIAL OIL COMPONENT
申请人:Kaneka Corporation
公开号:EP1752144A1
公开(公告)日:2007-02-14
The present invention has its object to provide an agent for preventing and/or ameliorating life style-related diseases which contains, as an active ingredient, a substance derived from a safe food material having a long history of being eaten as a food and which is capable of being utilized as functional foods such as health foods or functional health foods (specific health foods, functional nutritive foods).
The agent for preventing and/or ameliorating life style-related diseases according to the invention contains, as an active ingredient, at least one compound selected from the group consisting of ar-turmerone, α-turmerone, β-turmerone, curlone, bisacumol and β-sesquiphellandrene, or at least one compound selected from among the bisabolane type sesquiterpenoids derived from Curcuma longa L., and therefore is useful for preventing and/or ameliorating diabetes, visceral fat obesity, metabolic syndrome and obesity, among others.
本发明的目的是提供一种用于预防和/或改善与生活方式有关的疾病的制剂,该制剂作为一种活性成分,含有一种从安全食品材料中提取的物质,该食品材料具有作为食品食用的悠久历史,并且能够用作功能性食品,如保健食品或功能性保健食品(特定保健食品、功能性营养食品)。
根据本发明,用于预防和/或改善与生活方式有关的疾病的制剂含有至少一种选自 ar-turmerone、α-turmerone、β-turmerone、curone、bisacumol 和 β-sesquiphellandrene,或至少一种选自姜黄类倍半萜化合物的化合物作为活性成分,因此可用于预防和/或改善与生活方式有关的疾病、因此可用于预防和/或改善糖尿病、内脏脂肪肥胖症、代谢综合征和肥胖症等。