AGENT FOR AMELIORATION OF INSULIN RESISTANCE

摘要

Disclosed is a pharmaceutical or beverage/food which can inhibit the production of an adipocytokine, particularly an adipocytokine that can induc e the resistance to insulin, to thereby prevent or ameliorate the occurrence o f a morbid condition relating to insulin resistance. The pharmaceutical or beverage/food comprises, as an active ingredient, 3-O-.beta.-D-glucopyranosy l- 4-methylergost-7-en-3-ol, or an extract of a plant belonging to the family Liliaceae with an organic solvent or hot water or a squeezed solution of the plant or a fractionated product of the extract or squeezed solution which contains the compound.