Effects of combination of functional food materials on body weight, body fat percentage, serum triglyceride and blood glucose

Introduction Following the changes in the eating habits of the Japanese people in recent years, the intake of fats and easy to digest sugars has increased leading to an excessive intake of calories (energy). In addition people with obesity and obesity accompanied life-style related diseases such as diabetes and hyperlipedemia, etc. are also increasing due to various factors such as lack of exercise and mental stresses, etc. This has become a national problem 1) and concrete action plan “Health Japan 21” has been designed that first and foremost aims at inculcating a habit of exercising, limiting the intake of calories by improving the eating habits and improving the nutritional balance. However, in today’s busy life, there are many people who very often have irregular mealtimes or irregular meal contents or have many opportunities of eating out and as such find it difficult to improve their dietary habits. The nutritional food supplements are expected to undertake the role of helping such people in improving their dietary habits. These nutritional food supplements are useful in improving the dietary habit as they replenish the insufficient nutrients or contain non-nutrient functional components, and there is a demand that their effectiveness and safety be scientifically proven. However, only in vitro examinations or in vivo examinations using animals are not sufficient and effectiveness and safety test involving humans are essential. Barrious Laboratories has developed “SUPER BOWS DIET TYPE A” and “SUPER BOWS DIET TYPE B” as health supplements that are useful in improving the dietary habits to avoid risks such as obesity and diabetes, hyperlipedemia, etc. and has conducted tests on humans to evaluate the characteristics and examine the results on humans and to verify the safety. An outline of the test results obtained up to now has been introduced in this report.