Agent for preventing/amelioration life style-related diseases containing turmeric essential oil component

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 func...

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1. Verfasser: MAE TATSUMASA,NISHIYAMA TOZO,KISHIDA HIDEYUKI,TAKAGAKI RYOJI,YAMAMOTO MASAJI
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung: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, ±-turmerone, ²-turmerone, curlone, bisacumol and ²-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.