Japanese healthy adult workers
Conditions
Interventions
Functional Lunch Boxes for 8 weeks, including 180g of sticky barley-rice, 300g of functional side dish and 2g of functional tea.
Sponsors
NxtQOL connect corporation
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Healthy workers who live or work in Kameyama city and are worried about metabolic syndrome, or Healthy workers elder than 60. 2. Subjects between the ages of 30 and 70 who are health-conscious and have Japanese nationality. 3. Subjects who have minor health complaints at before the test. 4. Subjects who have the privately owned smartphones and can use them. 5. Subjects who agree to participate in this study with a written informed consent.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Subjects who are under physicians advice, treatment, and/or medication for schizophrenia, depression, mania, neurological disorders, and/or sleep disorders. 2. Subjects with serious cerebrovascular, cardiac, hepatic, renal, gastrointestinal diseases, and/or affected with infectious diseases requiring reports to the authorities. 3. Subjects with major surgical history relevant to the digestive system such as gastrectomy, gastrorrhaphy, enterectomy, etc. 4. Subjects with implantable electronic medical devices. 5. Subjects who are under nutritional advice by a physician. 6. Pre- or post-menopausal women complaining of obvious physical changes. 7. Subjects who cannot continue to consume the test foods due to allergic reactions to drugs or foods (especially wheat and grass), and those who regularly use health foods including drugs and supplements that affect stress and sleep. 8. Subjects who regularly use medicines (sleeping pills, psychotropic drugs, etc.) or health foods/supplements (glycine, gamma-aminobutyric acid, L-serine, L-theanine, L-ornithine, reduced coenzyme Q10, etc.) that affect stress and sleep. 9. Subjects who regularly take medicine, functional foods, and/or supplements which would affect sleep and/or stress. 10. Heavy smokers, alcohol addicts or subjects with disordered lifestyle. 11. Subjects who donated either 400 ml whole blood within 16 wks (women), 12 wks (men), 200 ml whole blood within 4 wks, or blood components within 2 wks, prior to the current study. 12. Pregnant or lactating women or women who expect to be pregnant during this study. 13. Subjects who currently participate in other clinical trials or participated within the last 4 wks prior to the current study. 14. Any other medical and/or health reasons unfavorable to participation in the current study, as judged by the principal investigator.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Comprehensive valuation by the brief job stress questionnaire (Section B) and subjective accomplishment after 8 weeks of ingestion | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Body composition, sleep quality, sleep heart rate and sleep record, meal records and meal satisfaction surveys, thoughts on the test | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactTakashi MATSUMOTO
NxtQOL connect corporation President
Outcome results
None listed