Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) and Chia (Salvia hispanica) intake effect in volunteers

Maura C�rdenas–Garc�a; Patricia Pardo Ruiz; Patricia Perea Gonz�lez

Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2016

Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) and Chia (Salvia hispanica) intake effect in volunteers

Maura C Rdenas Garc A, Patricia Pardo Ruiz, Patricia Perea Gonz Lez

Abstract :

 As a result of changes in alimentation habits in Mexico for the last 20 years the country occupies now the first place in the world in child obesity, and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome is 26.6%. The following protocol was realized as a part of an effort to make the population conscious of the problem. We worked for 6 months with a group of 120 volunteers. For the first two months they conducted their normal lives, their levels of glucose, cholesterol triglycerides, and magnesium and antioxidant capacity were monitored. For the following two months the volunteers were divided in 3 groups: the 1st group was administered Coriandrum sativum seed powder, the 2nd Salvia hispanica powder and the 3rd group both Coriandrum sativum and Salvia hispanica powder. For the last 2 months, without the interruption of seed treatment, they also started to make 20 minutes of physical exercise daily, depending on individual physical conditions. During the first two months of treatment, the levels of glucose and cholesterol for the first group diminished, for the second group cholesterol levels diminished, and triglycerides levels. For the 3rd group, glucose level diminished, cholesterol and triglycerides. For the last 2 months, when the exercise started, the levels were maintained. In the prehispanic culture, these seeds were employed traditionally for different medical purposes, it seems, that now it is time to return not only to traditional Mexican food, but to the traditional Mexican medicine as well.