Use Techo Corporation, Potential of Banaba Market, adding banaba to various foods.

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The number of diabetics in the world
According to an investigation of World Health Organization (WHO), it was estimated that there would be 30 million diabetics in the world in 1985. Now, the number of diabetics in the world is said to be 130 million. Also, it is estimated that the number would be 300 million in 2025. The rise is thought to be remarkable in developing countries. In other words, the number of future diabetics is considerable.

The number of diabetics in Japan

According to the Investigation Report of Diabetes (1999) of Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, 6.9 million people are strongly doubted to be diabetics. By adding up those who have possibility to be diabetics to the 6.9 million, estimated 13.7 million diabetics are in Japan. It can be said that one out of ten Japanese have a risk to be diabetics. The number of diabetics in Japan was 1.5 million in the middle of 1960's. It means the number of diabetics quadrupled in the last 20 years. More terrible thing is that diabetes causes complications such as neuropathy, retinopathy and nephropathy

Future of Banaba

It is important paying attention to diet and exercises before you become diabetes. Banaba is not widely known in Japan yet, but it has more than 1,000 years of history in the Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand. In these countries, banaba tea has been drunk for prevention of diabetes and health maintenance. In this modern time called age of gluttony, we need to listen to “Asian wisdoms.” At present, banaba is ingested just as tea and dietary supplement. We would like to make good use of banaba for prevention of life style related diseases by adding banaba to various foods.