A food or pharmaceutical agent is provided for treating or offsetting the risks of a disease or disorder such as a cardiovascular disease, a hypercholesterolemia disorder, a low serum high density lipid low density lipid ratio, a hypertriglyceridemia disorder, and diabetes includes a pharmaceutical carrier, and a composition including a purified glucomannan and at least one galactomannan. The core control devices capable of providing disaster recovery function of the present invention guarantee uninterrupted operation for system, and provide high accessability of the access equipments in the packet switch network. The first die faces a first face of a plate member. It is possible to cause the transistor M1 to remain in an on or off state for a specified period of time without disposing a specific circuit for temporary storing the switching data. The imaging system further includes a beam shaper, located between the focal spot and the examination region, that shapes an x-ray transmission profile of the radiation emitted from the source and incident on the beam shaper such that the radiation leaving the beam shaper has a pre-determined transmission profile.