This survey was carried out to investigate the effect of the daily average nutrient intakes, self-consciousness of nutrition knowledge and health on the nutrition knowledge and food habits between college women and their own mothers. Questionnaires were completed by 214 college women who do major in nutrition and by 173 their mothers. The college women scored significantly higher than that of their mothers in the nutrition knowledge. And their mothers scored significantly higher than that of college women in the food habits. Most of the subjects belonged to `Fair` food habit group. which was considered to be relatively good. The correlation of the scores between nutrition knowledge and food habits of the college women and their mothers was low. The daily average nutrient intakes of all women were higher than the recommended dietary allowance except for that of Iron. There was a significant and negative correlation between the nutrition knowledge score and daily average nutrient intakes in college women. But there was not a significant correlation in the nutrient intakes in their mothers. And also there was a significant and positive correlation between food habits score in their mothers but there was not a significant correlation score in college women. The higher the women had a self-consciousness of health. the higher their mothers had a food habit score, but they had daily average nutrient intakes were lower than their daughter`s(college women). And the women that had a self-consciousness of health were healthier. daily nutrient intakes in their own mothers were higher in the food habits scores than that of the college women. The main curriculum for a good food habits is that it is important that one has a responsible nutrition education. For the improvement of nutrition education program we should transmit the nutritional information through an effective mass media(i.e. Radio, TV, Newspaper).

In this study, to develop hair growth agents using natural products which has excellent ability to promote hair growth effect and fewer side effect, animal experiment and clinical trials was performed to evaluate hair growth promotion effect of herbal product containing Rosa mutiflora roots extracts as a main component (RMHP). 4-week-old male C57BL/6 mice were removed the dorsal hair using thioglycolate, and applied 15% EtOH solution as a negative control, 5% minoxidil as a positive control and RMHP to dorsal skin. In the results of macroscopy and photo-interpretation, RMHP group recorded 100% (+++++) of hair growth was proved to significantly stimulate hair growth against 80% (++++) negative control group. 37 patients were treated with RMHP and evaluated the therapeutic effect at 16 weeks. Hair density was significantly increased at 16 weeks after applying RMHP (125.0±4.9 FU/cm2) compared to before treatment (104.3±4.7 FU/cm2, p 〈 0.05), and hair thickness were also significantly increased (0.066±0.003 mm) than before treatment (0.055±0.002 mm, p 〈 0.05). The result of clinical photo-interpretation using 7-point rating scale assessment, after 16 weeks clinical symptoms were evaluated to significantly improve with 1.23±0.05 (p 〈 0.05). Therefore, the results of this study were observed that RMHP have hair loss prevention effect and hair growth promotion effect to hair loss patients.

Guava (Psidium guajava) contain a great deal of polyphenol compound and work on the treatment of Diabetes mellitus effectively. In this study, the bioactivities of aqueous extract (GLEx) of guava leaf were investigated. Total phenolic contents of GLEx was 266.9 mg tan/g. The effects of GLEx on digestive enzymes, α-amylase, maltase and sucrase were investigated. IC50 values of GLEx against α-amylase, maltase and sucrase were 0.65 mg/ml, 2.0 mg/ml and 3.5 mg/ml respectively. The effect of GLEx on oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was performed in normal ICR mouse, control (dstilled water) and GLEx (aqueous extract of Guava leaf) were co-administered orally with glucose, showed reducing effect on the blood glucose level. The guava is likely to useful for prevention or improvement of hyperglycemia by lowering the blood glucose level and inhibiting glycoside hydrolase activity.

슈퍼자미(SuperC3GHi) 쌀 품종은 색소 성분인 cyanidine-3-glucoside(C3G)의 함량을 크게 증대시킨 품종이다. 슈퍼자미 벼품종을 활용한 새로운 기능성 소재 및 제품으로의 개발 가능성을 타진하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 슈퍼자미 벼품종의 버섯 균사체 발효물을 이용하여 항염증, 항알러지, 항암 기능의 검증을 수행하였다. 1. 슈퍼자미 미강 발효물의 항염 활성을 분석하기 위하여 ear-edema test를 수행한결과 약 35.6%의 염증 억제율을 나타내었다. 2. 슈퍼자미 미강 발효물의 항알러지 활성을 확인하기 위하여 비만세포인 RBL-2H3 세포의 hexoamidase 및 histamine 유리 활성을 조사한 결과 슈퍼자미 미강 발효물을 처리하였을 때 각각 약 40% 및 57%의 억제 활성을 나타내어 항알러지 활성을 확인하였다. 3. 슈퍼자미 미강 발효물의 항암 활성을 조사한 결과 복수암 모델 및 고형암 모델에서 모두 암세포의 증식을 억제하는 활성을 나타내었고, 혈액중 백혈구의 수치를 유의적으로 증가하는 것으로 나타나 슈퍼자미 미강 발효물이 항암 활성을 있음을 확인 할 수 있었다. 4. 이상의 결과에서 슈퍼자미 품종의 미강을 버섯 균사체 발효를 통해 얻어진 기능성 소재는 항염, 항알러지, 항암 활성을 통해서 우수한 기능성 소재로서의 개발 가능성이 매우 높다고 판단된다.

C3GHi 쌀 품종은 흑진주벼와 수원425호를 교배조합으로 하여 색소 성분인 cyanidine-3-glucoside(C3G)의 함량을 비약적으로 증대시킨 품종이다. C3GHi 벼품종을 활용하여 기능성 제품 및 소재로의 개발 가능성을 타진하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 C3GHi 벼품종의 항산화 활성 및 항당뇨 기능의 검증을 수행하였다. 1. C3GHi 벼품종의 항산화 활성을 비교 분석한 결과에서 C3GHi는 일반 벼 및 흑진주벼보다 매우 우수한 항산화 활성을 가진 것으로 나타났으며, 대표적 항산화 소재인 glutathione과 유사한 활성을 나타내었다. 2. C3GHi 벼품종의 혈당지수를 인체 시험을 통해서 산출한 결과에서도 일반 현미나 백미에 비해서 15%정도 낮은 혈당지수를 나타내 당뇨 환자들의 식사 대용식의 소재로서 활용 가능성이 높을 것으로 사료된다. 3. db/db mice 모델 및 STZ를 통해 당뇨병을 유발한 동물 모델에서 C3GHi 쌀추출물 및 C3GHi쌀 현미의 동결건조 분말이 혈당 상승을 막고, 산화적 손상을 억제하는 것으로 나타났다. 4. 이상의 결과에서 C3GHi쌀은 낮은 혈당지수 및 항산화 활성, 항당뇨 활성 등을 보유하고 있어 이후 당뇨 환자용 기능성 식사 대용식 및 기능성 식품 원료로서의 개발 가능성이 높다고 판단된다.