179 results about "Blood cholesterol" patented technology

The invention provides a nutritional supplement which includes micronutrients to facilitate reduction of cholesterol, and / or reduction of homocystein and / or reduction of low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) oxidation in humans. In one embodiment the supplement is a multi-vitamin, a mineral supplement which includes at least one component known to reduce cholesterol. The invention further provides a method for tableting one fourth to one half of the daily effective dosage of a phytosterol containing nutritional supplement in a practical sized tablet and a method for reducing blood cholesterol in humans.

A nutritional composition for improving blood cholesterol by jointly and simultaneously inhibiting cholesterol absorption, decreasing blood LDL levels, increasing blood HDL levels and interfering with HMG-CoA reductase synthesis or degradation in an individual comprising, therapeutically effective amounts of plant sterols or plant stanols or derivatives thereof, procyanidins, policosanol and niacin or derivatives of niacin is provided. Both a composition and a method are provided by the present disclosure.

The invention relates to a thin-film material for an optical fiber biosensor probe and a preparation method thereof. The material has catalytic characteristic and photosensitivity and is made from Fe3O4 / SiO2 magnetic nanocomposite particles, bioactive enzyme, fluorescent material and sol-gel. The bioactive enzyme is fixed on the Fe3O4 / SiO2 magnetic nanocomposite particles and the fixed bioactive enzyme and the fluorescent material are embedded in a sol-gel grid. The preparation method comprises the following steps: a Fe3O4 / SiO2 magnetic nanocomposite particle carrier is synthesized; the carrier is activated by glutaraldehyde or by glutaraldehyde, bovine serum albumin and glutaraldehyde in sequence and then has a crosslinking reaction with the bioactive enzyme to fix the enzyme; the Fe3O4 / SiO2 magnetic nanocomposite particles fixed with the bioactive enzyme are dripped on the surface of a treated glass substrate after being mixed with the sol-gel liquid blended with a Ru(bpy)3Cl2 fluorescent indicator; after cleaning, drying and aging, a sol-gel optical bio-composite sensing film embedding the bioactive enzyme and the fluorescent indicator is obtained. The optical fiber biosensor probe made from the thin-film material is especially applicable to the detection of blood sugar, blood cholesterol and the like.

The invention discloses sugar-free homogenate diet which is characterized by being prepared by mixing the puffing rice meal, puffing corn meal, puffing oat meal, soy protein, controlled-release maltodextrin, dietary fiber, vegetable fat, whole-fat milk powder, egg powder, fish meat powder, carrot powder, isomalt, mineral premix and vitamin prefix. The product disclosed by the invention is rich insoluble dietary fiber as well as insoluble dietary fiber, can obviously slow the digestive absorption of glucose after eating so as to reduce glycemic index, and can obviously improve the intestines and stomach functions and reduce the blood cholesterol level; particularly, the product contains trivalent chromium which plays an important part in regulating glycometabolism and keeping normal tolerance in vivo and also acts on the transphosphorylase in glucose metabolism to prevent and cure diabetes mellitus; and moreover, the carbohydrate of the product is high-molecular carbohydrate such as controlled-release maltodextrin, oats, corn and the like, and sugar alcohol not influencing the blood sugar level is also added.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine polyester fiber, which comprises polyester fiber and traditional Chinese medicine powder, which are mixed according to the ratio of 90-95 parts of polyester fiber and 5-10 parts of superfine Chinese medicine powder. The preparation method includes main processes such as grinding, mixing, stirring, defoaming treatment and the like. Among them, Chinese medicine materials choose wolfberry, cassia seed, ginkgo leaf and honeysuckle. Lycium barbarum can promote blood circulation and prevent arteriosclerosis. Cassia seed can treat constipation, hyperlipidemia, and high blood pressure. Ginkgo leaf can reduce blood cholesterol levels in the human body and increase blood vessel permeability and elasticity. , honeysuckle can clear blood poison, reduce blood fat. The invention mixes four kinds of traditional Chinese medicine powders with the polyester fibers, so that the traditional Chinese medicine powders are uniformly distributed inside the fibers, thereby reducing high blood pressure, high blood sugar and high blood lipids.

This invention provides compositions and methods related to the administration of psyllium husk, Î<2>-sitosterol, guggul tree extract, guar gum and chromium as a combination to reduce or control blood cholesterol, triglycerides, low density lipoproteins, blood sugar or increasing or controlling high density lipoproteins in a mammal, to reduce arterial plaque build-up, atherosclerosis, in a mammal which may be associated with cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, peripheral vascular, or intestinal vascular disorders.

To provide a bacterium belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium which is excellent in a survival ability in the gastrointestinal tract, has an effect of inhibiting the cholesterol absorption in the intestinal tract, and is excellent in lipid metabolism ameliorating effects including decreasing the blood cholesterol level and the like, and shows a high survival rate after storage, and a cholesterol absorption inhibitor using the same. The invention provides a cholesterol absorption inhibitor containing, as an active ingredient, at least one microorganism selected from Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. animalis YIT 10394, Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis JCM 1253, Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis JCM 7117, and Bifidobacterium pseudolongum subsp. globosum.

The invention provides a nutritional supplement which includes phytosterol to facilitate reduction of cholesterol. The nutritional supplement may be a swallowable tablet, chewable tablet, sachet, capsule or suspension. The invention further provides a method for tableting one fourth to one half of the daily effective dosage of a phytosterol containing nutritional supplement in a practical sized swallowable tablet and a method for reducing blood cholesterol in humans.

The invention discloses functional camellia oil, which is obtained by mixing, stirring and filtering raw materials comprising the following ingredients in parts by mass: 928.8 to 989.3 parts of camellia oleifera seed oil, 10 to 70 parts of plant sterol ester, 0.1 to 0.7 part of rosemary and 0.1 to 1 part of vitamin E. The functional camellia oil has the advantages that the stability is good, the shelf life is long, the effect of obviously reducing blood cholesterol, triglyceride and low-density lipoprotein cholesterin is realized, the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases can be effectively prevented, and good stability is realized during high-temperature cooking.

The invention discloses a biologic emulsifier for livestock feed. The biologic emulsifier is characterized by being prepared by two or more than two of sophorolipid, rhamnolipid and trehalose. The sophorolipid, the rhamnolipid and the trehalose and the like in the emulsifier are all secondary metabolites generated by microbial fermentation, can be naturally metabolized and degraded, do not cause residues in animal bodies, and do not influence quality of animal products. The biologic emulsifier can remarkably improve livestock fat digestion utilizing rate, improves feed reward, reduces livestock blood cholesterol and triglyceride, remarkably improves livestock production performances, improves carcass quality, improves body immune function, reduces morbidity and mortality, and remarkably improves economic returns.

A method for treating age related macular degeneration (AMD) using an insulin preparation applied topically to the conjunctival sac of the affected eye. Another aspect of this invention is using antiangiogenic adjuvant therapeutic agents such as bevacizumab, ranibizumab, pegaptanib, etanercept, instilled in to the afflicted eye conjunctival sac with insulin to prevent further formation of new blood vessels, and shrink the existing pathologically formed blood vessels and reduce the edema in wet AMD. This method incorporates putting the patients on low fat diet, aerobic exercise, ketamine-a NMDA blocker, reducing the blood cholesterol using adjuvant therapeutic agents selected from Statins, that are inhibitors of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A, (i.e. HMG-Co A) reductase which in turn reduce drusen formation that leads to AMD, combined with insulin ophthalmic drops.

The present invention provides the tripeptide MAP and / or the tripeptide ITP and / or salts thereof for use as a health benefit agent, especially in functional food products. The tripeptides have particular application in the areas of the prevention of obesity or body weight control and cardiovascular health maintenance, especially the inhibition of angiotensin-converting enzyme and the control of blood cholesterol levels. Functional Food products comprising these tripeptides and having health benefits in these areas, and a process for making these products, are also provided. The tripeptides can be conveniently incorporated into food products to provide the aforementioned health benefits to the consumer thereof.

Food products comprising hydrolysed milk solids, especially tripeptides such as IPP, VPP, LPP are known to lower blood pressure. However they show an undesirable off taste. This can be remedied by the addition of sterol or stanol fatty acid esters to the food products. Preferred food products are emulsions. A further benefit of these products is that they may also reduce blood cholesterol levels.

Dietary supplements useful for treating or preventing cardiac disease are disclosed According to some embodiments, the presently disclosed supplement includes a pomegranate product fermented with a statin-producing fungus such one or more of Monascus, Aspergillus, Penicillium, Pleurotus, Pythium, Hypomyces, Paelicilomyces, Eupenicillium, and Doratomyces. Alternatively or additionally, the presently disclosed supplement includes a pomegranate product in combination with a plant product, such as a grain product and a legume, fermented with the statin-producing fungus. Optionally, the supplement includes at least one of coenzymeQ10 and a tocopherol. The presently disclosed dietary supplements include both a COX-2 inhibitor and a HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, and in some embodiments, the supplement is useful for reducing or controlling blood cholesterol for managing atherosclerotic disease, and / or for managing blood pressure. Methods of preparing the presently disclosed dietary supplement are also provided.

Disclosed are a test strip and a method for measuring medical data. The test strip comprises an upper cover having one or more application holes; a lower support having one or more detected parts at positions corresponding to detecting units of the measuring apparatus; an erythrocyte and LDL cholesterol-filtering layer designed to filter off both of erythrocytes and LDL cholesterol from an applied blood sample by agglutinating erythrocytes and precipitating LDL cholesterol; and a reaction layer in which the blood sample free of erythrocytes and LDL cholesterol is reacted with an reagent, the filtering layer and the reaction layer being stacked between the lower support and the upper cover. Structured to filter off erythrocytes and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol from a blood sample in a single layer, the test strip of the present invention can be made to be slim and allows a low volume of blood to be analyzed.

It is intended to provide a rice bran-like composition having a higher bioactivity by modifying rice bran. The rice bran-like composition obtained by mixing (1) defatted rice bran obtained by subjecting rice bran to an oil-pressing treatment and (2) rice bran oil obtained by subjecting pressed rice bran oil to a purification treatment such that the weight ratio of the content of defatted rice bran to the content of rice bran oil becomes 85:15 to 60:40; and a food containing (1) defatted rice bran and (2) rice bran oil at a weight ratio of 85:15 to 60:40. Preferred components of the rice bran-like composition are as follows: the content of fat is from 20 to 40% by weight; the content of protein is from 10 to 17% by weight; the content of carbohydrate is from 5 to 21% by weight; the content of ash is from 7 to 13% by weight; and the content of fiber is from 20 to 32% by weight. According to the invention, more excellent action of suppressing or reducing an increase in visceral fat, action of suppressing or reducing an increase in blood neutral fat and an action of suppressing or reducing an increase in blood cholesterol are obtained compared with rice bran.

The invention discloses a dairy product rich in cellulose and a preparation method thereof. The dairy product contains 13-47% of milk protein, 1.0-27% of milk fat and 44-82% of carbohydrate, wherein the carbohydrate comprises soluble dietary fiber; and the soluble dietary fiber accounts for 5-56% of the total amount of the dairy product by mass. The product disclosed by the invention has strong dairy smell and mild taste, and overcomes the defect of bad mouthfeel of common cellulose foods. Meanwhile, the product has high-quality protein and appropriate fat content, and people eating the product do not need to worry about excessive energy intake and can take rich vitamin and mineral substances. The product disclosed by the invention is rich in cellulose, and the soluble cellulose has the effects on promoting intestinal peristalsis and improving constipation and physiological effects of reducing blood cholesterol as well as blood sugar. Therefore, the product disclosed by the invention can be used as a food for the patients suffering from high blood fat, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, constipation, obesity and the like and as a nutritional food suitable for the aged and elderly people, and can be eaten daily and conveniently.

A vegtable oil fraction rich in non-tocolic, high-melting, unsaponifiable matter is prepared by the following steps: A vegetable oil having a slip melting point of not more thatn 30° C. and a content of unsaponifiable matter of at least 0.5% by weight is hydrongenated to fully saturate the fatty acids of the glycerides and to reach a slip melting point of at least 57° C. To the hydrongenated oil is added from 1 to 75% by weight of the unhydrogenated starting oil or another oil having a slip melting poing of not more than 30° C. in order to act as a carrier and vehicle for the unsaponifiable matter. Then, a solvent is added to the oil mixture in a ratio between oil and solvent from 1:2 to 1:20, and the mixture is heated to transparency. The oil / -solvent-mixture is cooled in one or more steps to a final temperature in the range from -35 to +30° C., and the precipitated high-melting fraction(s) is (are) filtered off. The filtrate is desolventised, leaving a fraction rich in unsaponifiable matter. By this process very high concentrations of in particular the non-tocolic, higher melting unsaponifiables can be achieved, and the composition of the glyceridic part of the enriched fraction can betailored to specific applications. Also, a novel blood cholesterol-lowering effect of the unsaponifiable constituents from shea butter has been found.

The present invention provides an antiobesity composition comprising extract of Melissa as an active ingredient, use of Melissa extract, and a method for suppressing obesity using the composition. Also, the present invention provides an antiobesity composition comprising extract of Melissa and extract of Mori Folium as active ingredients, use of a mixture of Melissa extract and Mori Folium extract, and a method for suppressing obesity using the composition. Further, the present invention provides an antiobesity composition comprising extract of Melissa, extract of Artemisia and extract of Mori Folium as active ingredients, use of a mixture of Melissa extract, Artemisia extract and Mori Folium extract, and a method for suppressing obesity using the composition. When the present compositions are administrated into genetically obese mice or high fat diet-induced obese mice, the present compositions reduced body weight, body fat and gonadal fat, and reduce blood cholesterol level and obesity-related blood glucose level. Also, the present compositions suppress hypertrophy of adipocytes, and inhibit the accumulation of lipid in the liver by reducing the size and number of lipid vacuoles. Furthermore, in human clinial trial the present compositions show that body weight, PIBW, body fat, especially visceral fat, apolipoprotin B concentration, ratio of total cholesterol / HDL cholesterol and ratio of LDL cholesterol / HDL cholesterol are significantly decreased, and atherogenic index is improved and muscle mass is increased. Thus, the present compositions can be usefully applied as antiobesity composition for reduction of body weight and suppression of abdominal fat, particularly, visceral fat.

The invention provides application of a cholesterol molecule imprinted membrane sensing electrode in detecting cholesterol content in blood. Specific steps in the method are as follows: (1) treating a blood sample, that is, standing the blood sample at room temperature and carrying out centrifugation to extract serum if the blood sample is obtained by drawing blood from a person who is on an empty stomach, or carrying out anticoagulation by using heparin or EDTA (ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid) if the blood sample is blood plasma; (2) dropwise adding the blood sample obtained in step (1) onto the cholesterol molecule imprinted membrane sensing electrode, inserting the cholesterol molecule imprinted membrane sensing electrode into an amperometric sensor for determination, and recording readings. When used for detecting cholesterol content in blood, the molecule imprinted membrane sensing electrode has the advantages of low cost, high sensitivity, fast analysis speed, capacity of reducing sampling amount and avoiding tedious pretreatment of blood samples, etc.

The invention relates to a health-care porridge. The porridge is made from the following components, and the weight-to-number ratio is: 30-50 parts of soybeans, 60-80 parts of sorghum, 10-30 parts of red beans, 10-30 parts of wheat kernels, And the right amount of cowpea. Through the repeated research and development of the applicant, the present invention organically combines various components according to the aforementioned ratio, and various effects complement each other, thereby effectively promoting digestion, improving sleep, and having obvious curative effects on hyperlipidemia and hypertension.

The invention discloses a fiber biscuit for promoting the digestion function. The fiber biscuit comprises, by weight, 30-50 parts of self-raising flour, 10-15 parts of low-fat milk powder, 5-8 parts of bean dreg powder, 3-5 parts of hawthorn powder, 15-20 parts of egg liquid, 10-20 parts of butter and 5-8 parts of berry sugar. The fiber biscuit is free of pollution, safe, free of toxic and side effects and free of annexing agents, and has the advantages of preventing and treating hypertension, heart diseases and arteriosclerosis, reducing the serum cholesterol concentration and promoting digestive absorption. The fiber biscuit is simple in making process, low in cost, high in production efficiency and suitable for large-scale production.

The invention provides a production process of a soy sauce flavor type soybean sauce. The soy sauce flavor type soybean sauce is prepared by using vinasse as a raw material, and aspergillus oryzae strains and bifidobacterium strains as strains. The production process is characterized in that with vinasse as the raw material, the production cost is reduced; and meanwhile, with bifidobacterium as a fermenting strain, the prepared soybean sauce contains nutritional ingredients such as lipoteichoic acid, membrane teichoic acid and peptidoglycan, so that the soybean sauce is endowed with a unique flavor, and the soybean sauce has the efficacies of enhancing the immunologic function and anti-tumour effect of the organism, relieving and removing fatigue, adjusting balance of intestinal microflora and improving the liver function, has nutritional benefits, and also has the efficacies of relieving uremia, resisting anaphylaxis, increasing the appetite, reducing blood pressure and blood cholesterol, preventing arteriosclerosis and the like, so as to promote health of a human body. The soybean sauce prepared by the production process is dark in color, and thick in juice, contains sugar but is not sweet, contains salt but is not salty, contains acid but is not sour, and has the unique thick soy sauce flavor.

The invention belongs to the technical field of traditional Chinese medicines and in particular relates to a traditional Chinese medicine preparation for adjusting hypertension, hyperlipemia and hyperglycemia. The traditional Chinese medicine preparation is prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 8-20 parts of apium graveolens, 8-20 parts of roots of red-rooted salvia, 5-15 parts of sanchi flowers, 10-30 parts of red rhodobryum, 10-30 parts of roots of kudzu vines, 5-15 parts of anoectochilus formosanus, 5-15 parts of radix cynanchi bungei, 5-15 parts of dendrobe and 20-30 parts of sweet potato leaves. The traditional Chinese medicine preparation is obtained by combining the multi-year clinical experience summary of the investor through repeated experiments on the basis of the secret prescription handed down from ancestors, so that the preparation has a special curative effect on the refractory hypertension, hyperlipemia and hyperglycemia. By scientifically combining the plurality of drugs and compressively applying the preparation, the active ingredients of the drug can quickly enter blood circulation, so that blood cholesterol is lowered, thrombogenesis is blocked, coronary artery is expanded, blood flow volume is increased, myocardial ischemia tolerance is improved, cerebral infarction is improved and damaged cranial nerves are recovered, and therefore, patients with hypertension, hyperlipemia and hyperglycemia are quickly recovered. The traditional Chinese medicine preparation disclosed by the invention has the special curative effect to hypertension, hyperlipemia, diabetes mellitus, brain atrophy, cerebral thrombosis, coronary heart disease, cerebral arteriosclerosis and sequela of apoplexy. Moreover, the traditional Chinese medicine preparation is quick to become effective, short in treatment course, high in cure rate and small in expense.

The present invention provides a dietary supplement and methods of using the same to promote body weight reduction and / or loss of body fat in a subject, and for the management of obesity. The supplement can further be used to reduce one or more metabolic parameters in a subject, such as blood glucose levels, blood triglyceride levels, and blood cholesterol levels.

The invention relates to edible oil, in particular to an edible blending oil. The invention also relates to a preparation method of the blending oil. The raw material oil of the edible blending oil comprises the following oils by weight percent: 10%-20% of tea seed soil, 20%-30% of colza oil and 50-70% of soybean oil. After the edible blending oil of the invention is prepared by blending tea seedsoil, colza oil and soybean oil, the ratio of the saturated fatty acid which has harmful effects to human cardiovascular system, to the fatty acid of the edible blending oil is reduced and the ratio of the monounsaturated fatty acid which is beneficial for human health is increased. The blending oil can fully meet the normal demand of human body for the edible oil and can not bring adverse effectsfor human body. The blending oil of the invention has active effect on inhibiting and preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension, hyperlipaemia, atherosclerosis and the like, reducing blood cholesterol and triglyceride, cleaning internal lipid superoxide, moisturizing skin, etc.

The invention provides a soft capsule preparation for preventing and treating diseases of old people. The preparation comprises the following main and auxiliary raw materials in percentage by weight: 3 to 48 percent of sabal extract, 1 to 20 percent of lycoypene, 0.1 to 0.7 percent of coenzyme Q10, 0.1 to 5 percent of lecithin, 25 to 40 percent of alpha-linolenic acid, and 0.1 to 10 percent of auxiliary materials. The soft capsule preparation relates to a prescription with anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidation, blood cholesterol reduction functions, and the preparation prepared by using the prescription has the functions of inhibiting benign prostatic hyperplasia, delaying senescence, preventing cancer, preventing cardiovascular diseases, preventing senile dementia and the like.