Abstract
The survey was conducted from late June to early July, 2005, for the purpose of investigating students′ attitudes toward diet. The targets of this study were 261 male students in the 8th grade and 235 male students in the 11th grade of a private school in Sapporo.
1. The number of the junior high school students who answered they “do not skip meals” was higher than that of the high school students.
2. As for the frequency of dairy products intake, approx 70 percent of both the junior -and senior- high school students answered they eat dairy products “once or more a day”. There were many respondents who answered “rarely” in the meal-skipping group. As for eggs and fishery products, significant differences were observed.
3. The number of students who answered they “have a healthy dietary life” was higher in the no meal-skipping group than in the meal-skipping group, showing a significant difference.
4. As for losing weight, 19. 8% of the senior high students answered they “really want to lose weight” as opposed to 6. 0% of the junior high students, showing a significant difference.
