Prochild ONLUS, Trieste (TS), Italy.
Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2012 Mar;63 Suppl 1:51-61. doi: 10.3109/09637486.2011.637487. Epub 2011 Nov 22.
Diabetes shows a wide range of variation in prevalence around the world and it is expected to affect 300 million by the year 2025. In a prevention framework where banning policies and educational strategies lead the interventions, functional foods (FFs) with their specific health effects could, in the future, indicate a new mode of thinking about the relationships between food and health in everyday life. Functional ingredients, such as stevioside, cinnamon, bitter melon, garlic and onion, ginseng, Gymnema sylvestre and fenugreek, have been addressed for their specific actions towards different reactions involved in diabetes development. New strategies involving the use of FF should be validated through large-scale population trials, considering validated surrogate end points to evaluate the effect of FF in prevention of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus.
糖尿病的患病率在全球范围内差异很大，预计到 2025 年将影响 3 亿人。在以禁止政策和教育策略为主导的预防框架下，具有特定健康效应的功能性食品（FFs）可能会在未来为人们思考日常生活中食物与健康之间的关系提供一种新的模式。功能性成分，如甜菊糖苷、肉桂、苦瓜、大蒜和洋葱、人参、匙羹藤和葫芦巴，因其对糖尿病发展过程中涉及的不同反应的特定作用而受到关注。涉及使用 FF 的新策略应通过大规模人群试验进行验证，考虑使用经过验证的替代终点来评估 FF 在预防 2 型糖尿病等慢性病方面的效果。
