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The Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011, released radionuclides from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Food safety and people′ s health in the Fukushima prefecture became a major concern as radiation levels in the area increased. Since 2009, we have been investigating the food and nutritional intake of students from Ohu University (Koriyama, Fukushima) using brief-type self-administered diet history questionnaires.
Upon analysis of the data before and after the disaster, we found that male students′ eating habits did not significantly change. However female students′ eating habits did. Female students significantly decreased their ingestion of milk, green vegetables, citrus fruits, and mushrooms; and their weekly intake from all the major nutritional food groups (carbohydrate, protein, fat, electrolytes, minerals, vitamins, fibers) decreased generally. For both male and female students, nutrition and food intakes were below the recommended daily values.
Our results show that after the nuclear disaster, female students avoid certain foods and decrease their nutritional intake to a greater extent than male students.
