Abstract
In rice-cultivating districts farmers and their families are apt to overeat rice, and nutritionally undesirable effect has been generally recognized.
To investigate the effect of the enriched barley a nutritional survey was done on these farmers who were administered the enriched barley in their staple foods, and the following results were founds.
(a) After the administration the cases of the nutritional disease among the farmers were of tendency to decrease, especially among women it was remarkable.
(b) The abnormal systolic pressure patients decreased among men, and diastolic pressure abnormalities decreased both in men and in women.
(c) The degree of fatigue after looding the labor was slighter than that of control group.
(d) The concentratioe of vitamin B1, as well as the excreted amount in urine in a day were found almost unchangeable.
