美国华盛顿大学一项研究显示,蜂蜜等食物中的一种天然糖可以缩小动脉斑块,有望用于治疗动脉粥样硬化。这种糖名为海藻糖,是由两个葡萄糖分子构成的天然糖类,广泛存在于许多食物中,比如蜂蜜、蘑菇、海藻、豆、虾、啤酒及酵母发酵食品。研究人员培养了一群有动脉粥样硬化倾向的小鼠,给一半小鼠注射海藻糖,另一半用作对照组。他们发现,对照组小鼠动脉斑块平均大小为0.35平方毫米,注射海藻糖的小鼠动脉内斑块较小,平均为 A study by the University of Washington showed that natural sugars such as honey can reduce arterial plaque and are expected to be used to treat atherosclerosis. This sugar, called trehalose, is a natural sugar made up of two glucose molecules that is found in many foods such as honey, mushrooms, seaweeds, beans, shrimp, beer and yeast fermented foods. Researchers trained a group of mice with atherosclerosis tendencies, one half of the mice injected with trehalose and the other half served as the control group. They found that the average size of the arterial plaque in the control mice was 0.35 mm 2, and the plaques in the mice injected with trehalose were smaller with an average of