肥満と代謝のジャーナル

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Mock Meat? Ambiguity in vegetarianism

Ms. Katayama

Current world-trend in the healthy human life focuses the functional foods and beverages with safety. Kochi is one of the most famous primary industry prefectures, shipping its marine and agriculture products in Japan. We have been focusing on producing safe and healthy products, especially functional foods and beverages to prevent a rise in medical expense. In 1989, prefectural government established the first Deep-seawater (DSW) laboratory in Muroto city in Japan, having unique steep seafloor topography, and subsequent various studies started. We are now challenging to develop new functional products using DSW with scientific evidences. The utilization of DSW is expanding to various fields such as energy, agriculture, food, cosmetic and public health. Particularly, in the future standpoint of creation of value-added DSW, clinical study is an exclusive research to clarify whether drinking refined-deep-seawater (RDSW) produced from DSW collected in Muroto offshore (Kochi) is efficacy and safety in living body. The extensive beneficial effects of drinking RDSW were previously reported based on clinical studies (1-5). However, the function and mechanism in which RDSW exerts such diverse beneficial health effects on human body are unclear. Thus, clinical study was performed by theindustry-academiagovernment collaboration project.