Abstract
Investigations were made to a group of 259 female college students in Sapporo, Hokkaido area (the average age was 19.4 years old) and 259 of their mothers (the average age was 48.4 years old) in order to study the consciousness of their own diet style and health.
1) Statistical significance was observed (p<0.001), between a group which has a proper diet style to maintain good health (54% of the students and 71% of the mother) and a group which doesn't (20% of the students and 5% of the mother). Upon considering the relation between the consciousness of health and skipping meal, more than half of the students and mothers who don't skip meal claimed that they have diet style which is appropriate to maintain good health, and those (39% of the students and 56% of the mother) who skip meal feel that they don't. This finding indicates that there is a correlation between the consciousness of health and skipping meal.
2) The relation between health and defecation suggested that only 22% of students and 45% of mothers defecate on a daily basis, and the percentage of the students who defecate less than three times a week, which has a tendency for constipation, was 19%, which was higher than 7% for such mothers (p<0.001). The statistical significance was observed for the relation between constipation and whether the meal was skipped, which indicated that those with a habit to skip meal have a tendency for irregular defecation (23% of the students and 11% of the mothers).
3) The statistical significance was observed for the relation between students with a habit of skipping meal and their lower frequency for consumption of marine products, eggs, greenish yellow vegetables and seaweeds.
