Abstract: The present invention relates to raw materials for foods, pharmaceuticals, and the like, wherein the raw materials can be effective in preventing and ameliorating various lifestyle-related diseases such as obesity and hyperlipidemia, safe, applicable in wide areas, and less deteriorative to texture; and the present invention also relates to a preventive/remedy for obesity, an agent for suppressing fat accumulation in internal organs, an agent for suppressing blood glucose level increase, or a preventive/remedy for diabetes, wherein acetylated starch or starch octenyl succinate is an active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to raw materials for pharmaceuticals and the like, wherein the raw materials can be effective in preventing and remedying various lifestyle-related diseases such as obesity and hyperlipidemia, safe, and applicable in wide areas; and the present invention also relates to a preventive/remedy for obesity, an agent for suppressing fat accumulation in internal organs, an agent for suppressing blood glucose level increase, an agent for suppressing blood insulin level increase, an agent for preventing and remedying diabetes, an agent for improving lipid metabolism, and an agent for promoting fatty acid oxidation, wherein waxy corn starch is an active ingredient.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for enhancing physical activities by administering catechins. The combined use of catechin ingestion and exercise makes it possible to promote the oxidation of fat and hence, to inhibit obesity, liver enlargement and diabetes.

Abstract: The present invention is useful as endurance improving agents or antifatigue agents for physical activities in broad sense, such as exercises requiring endurance, labor requiring repeated muscle exercise, and the like. The present invention relates to endurance improving agents, antifatigue agents and AMPK activators, all of which contain catechins as an active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a preventive/remedy for obesity, which has a hydroxypropylated starch as its active ingredient. Provided are materials for foods, drugs, etc. which can exhibit an effect of preventing/lessening the onset of various lifestyle related diseases, for example, an effect of preventing/ameliorating obesity, or preventing/ameliorating hyperlipidemia; have a high safety and a wide application range; and rarely damage their texture.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for enhancing physical activities by administering catechins. The combined use of catechin ingestion and exercise makes it possible to promote the oxidation of fat and hence, to inhibit obesity, liver enlargement and diabetes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pet foods containing carbohydrates that include high-amylose starch, and an animal or vegetable protein. They are excellent in benefits such as having an anti-obesity effect and do not impair the pet's appetite or food intake.

Abstract: The present invention provides an oral-use polymer that is provided with a polymer chain (hereinafter, referred to as polymer chain 1) containing a repetitive structure derived from a monomer having a residue obtained by removing one hydrogen atom from one kind or more of phosphorus-containing acids selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acid, polyphosphoric acid, phosphonic acid, polyphosphonic acid, phosphinic acid, partial esters thereof and salts thereof, and