We performed a survey of the nutritional status of adult men and women, classifying them in farmers, side-job farmers and non-farmers, during 3 days from July 24, 1967 to July 26, in Obara Village, a remote village, under administration of Toyota Health Center, Aichi Prefecture.
Our results were as follows:
(1) The remarkable feature was the unsufficiency of taking of animal protein, especially, animal and bird meat, and the unsufficiency of taking of milk, which are considered as general nutritional defect characteristic to remote village. This tendency was noted in farmers, side-job farmers, non farmers in order.
The difference of taking between professions was statistically significant.
(2) In taking quantity of calcium and vitamin A, B1, B2, C etc., we noted remarkable deficit in all profession.
From these results we found that the nutritional level classified by profession in Obara Village, Aichi Prefecture, is considerably worse than the nutritional level classified by profession of the national nutrition survey in 1966.
