Abstract
Dietary surveys of the boarding house of a blind school were carried out in the summer and autumn of 1962, and in the autumn of 1963.
At the boarding house, the lunch was being supplemented with skim milk and bread in week clays, but no supplementation was done on saturdays and sundays.
From the comparison of the nutrient intake between the days having the different types of lunches, the following results were concluded:
1) Deficiency of both the nutrient and the food intakes were seen in most of the items compared with their recommended allowance, however, these intakes were fairely good compared with mean values for Japanese people, particularly in those items of calcium, vitamin A, vitamin B2, and cereals and milk.
2) The intake of total protein, animal protain, fat, calcium, vitamin A, B2, C, and of milk, fat and oil and the other vegetables were significantly larger in the days having lunch with the supplementation compared with those of no supplementation.
3) On the contrary, the intakes of caloric, carbohydrate and niacin, and of cereals and “shoyu” were larger in the days when they had lunch without the supplementation than those with the supplementation, and the differences of carbohydrate, cereals and “shoyu” intakes were statistically significant.
