Ikegami S, Tomita M, Honda S, Yamaguchi M, Mizukawa R, Suzuki Y, Ishii K, Ohsawa S, Kiyooka N, Higuchi M, Kobayashi S
National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan.
Plant Foods Hum Nutr. 1996 Jun;49(4):317-28. doi: 10.1007/BF01091981.
Barley contains approximately 10% dietary fiber and is easily cooked with rice, the dominant cereal in Japan, to increase the intake of dietary fiber. This research involved three experiments to examine the influence of barley on blood lipids in human subjects. All subjects received a boiled barley-rice (50/50 w/w mix) supplement two times per day in place of rice for 2 or 4 weeks. In the normolipemic subjects, serum lipids were unaffected by the ingestion of barley for 4 weeks. In twenty hypercholesterolemic men aged 41 +/- 5 years, the ingestion of barley was associated with a significant fall in serum total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, phospholipids and LDL and VLDL-lipoproteins. In seven mildly hypercholesterolemic women aged 56 +/- 7 years, a significant improvement of serum lipid profiles was observed. The present study suggests the possibility that the ingestion of barley-rice could lower serum lipids in hypercholesterolemic subjects.
大麦含有约10%的膳食纤维，并且很容易与日本的主要谷物大米一起烹饪，以增加膳食纤维的摄入量。这项研究包括三个实验，旨在研究大麦对人体受试者血脂的影响。所有受试者每天两次食用煮好的大麦米饭（50/50重量比混合），以代替大米，持续2周或4周。在血脂正常的受试者中，连续4周摄入大麦对血清脂质没有影响。在20名年龄为41±5岁的高胆固醇血症男性中，摄入大麦与血清总胆固醇、低密度脂蛋白胆固醇、磷脂以及低密度脂蛋白和极低密度脂蛋白显著下降有关。在7名年龄为56±7岁的轻度高胆固醇血症女性中，观察到血清脂质谱有显著改善。本研究表明，摄入大麦米饭有可能降低高胆固醇血症受试者的血清脂质。
