An experiment was carried with 15 males (60.2 years old on the average) and 12 females (43.3 years old on the average) who had made it a rule to run regularly for exercise in daily life. The females were before the climacteric stage. Its purpose was to study the serum cholesterol fraction in relation to food intake and distance, duration, and speed of running for exercise.
The following results were obtained.
1) The composite variable of serum lipid synthesis tended to be affected more distinctly by the group with food intake as indicator than by the group with locomotion as indicator. It seemed to be influenced primarily by the amount of food intake to a remarkable extent, and secondarily by the group with locomotion as indicator. In this group an increase in consumption of energy with the practice of running exercises participated in bringing about such influence.
2) It was suggested that great care should be taken for food intake in performing running exercises as a habit, taking energy consumed by running into consideration.

To investigate the effectiveness of Maobushisaishin-to (traditional Japanese herbal medicine; Tsumura TJ-127) in treating the common cold, a clinical comparison between Maobushisaishin-to and a general common cold drug was conducted using the sealed envelope method. The study involved 83 patients in the TJ-127 group and 88 patients in the general cold drug group. No differences in age, gender or the period from the onset of the disease to the beginning of treatment were observed between the two groups.
The results indicated greater than moderate improvement in 81.9% of the TJ-127 group, compared with 60.3% of the compound cold drug group (p<0.01). Further analysis of symptom diaries kept by the patients indicated that TJ-127 provided more rapid relief for symptoms such as fever, feeling feverish, coughing and phlegm than did the general cold drug. No side effects were observed for the TJ-127. These results suggest that TJ-127 is effective in the treatment of the common cold.