Effects of CH-19 sweet, a non-pungent cultivar of red pepper, in decreasing the body weight and suppressing body fat accumulation by sympathetic nerve activation in humans.
'CH-19 Sweet' is a non-pungent red pepper and enhances the energy expenditure in humans in like manner to the pungent red pepper. We investigated in this study the effects of a repeated intake of CH-19 Sweet for two weeks on the body weight and body fat in humans. Changes in the autonomic nervous activity after ingesting CH-19 Sweet were also measured by a power spectral analysis. We established a new protocol which allows the precise detection of weight change in humans by using fewer subjects. These methods were used to show that the repeated intake of CH-19 Sweet reduced the body weight and suppressed body fat accumulation. Furthermore, the body weight loss due to the repeated intake of CH-19 Sweet was significantly correlated with the sympathetic nervous response after its ingestion. We propose that the repeated intake of CH-19 Sweet reduced the body weight and suppressed body fat accumulation by sympathetic nervous activation in humans.
Kawabata
Fuminori
F
Laboratory of Nutrition Chemistry, Division of Food Science and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University.
Inoue
Naohiko
N
Yazawa
Susumu
S
Kawada
Teruo
T
Inoue
Kazuo
K
Fushiki
Tohru
T
D000273:Adipose Tissue; D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001835:Body Weight; D002149:Energy Intake; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012119:Respiration; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*; D014675:Vegetables