抄録
To establish a nutrition education program for male and female junior and senior high school students, we compared the nutritive terms found in Japanese and American homemaking textbooks. Nutritive terms were classified into four different categories. The number of subgroups in each category and their frequency were counted. The results were as follows : 1. There were more nutritive terms used in American textbooks than in their Japanese counterparts. 2. The number of terms in each of the four categories was more balanced in the American textbooks than in the Japanese. 3. In Japanese textbooks there were more terms covering nutrition and food chemistry. 4. American nutrition education textbooks emphasized weight control; Japanese textbooks, on the other hand, no mention was made.
