AGENT FOR PREVENTING/AMELIORATIG LIFE STYLE-RELAETD DISEASES CONTAINING TURMERIC ESSENTIAL OIL COMPONENT

摘要

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.