In July, 1968, the author surveyed the status of nutrition in two different regions in Kagoshima, that Furue-cho, Kanoya city (a seaside region) and Honmata, Togo-cho, Satsumagun (a mountainous region), and made a study of regional difference by the correlation during in each nutritive elements, each food group intake, and between each nutritive elements and each food group intake.
The results are as follows; the status of nutrition intake is not recognized the significance for regional difference in the average value, and though it reached almost the level, there was a great difference in the status of its distribution, and it showed much homely difference in same region.
In the status of food intake, the significance for average values of two regions are find in mostly food group, and especially there was a great difference both in sorts and in quantity of caloric sources and proteinic sources.
In the seaside region, the proteinic sources food is mainly fish, pulses and cereals.
In the mountainous region, animal proteinic food of every kind are taken and it recognized remarkable mutual relation between protein and animal protein.