2000 Volume 51 Issue 7 Pages 613-619
The questionnaire was distributed to ten public elementary schools in Y City, Chiba, to investigate the children's developmental change of dietary habits, health awareness and nutritional knowledge.
Based on their answers, we categorized the respondents into four groups, and investigated correlations between their dietary babits, health awareness and nutritional knowledge.
The main findings are as follows :
1) There were significant correlations between health awareness and some dietary babits. Those who were aware of their health in relation to food tended to eat breakfast everyday and regulate the amount of snack they had.
2) There was not significant correlation between dietary habits and nutritional knowledge.
3) There was a correlation between health awareness and nutritional knowledge but it was not so significant. Those who were aware of the relation between food and health tended to gain more proper nutritional knowledge.
