抄録
On the occasions of the General Inter-High School Base Ball Contests held at the Kohshien Ground, surveys on the nutrition of every team concerned were performedduring the meets, under the joint lodging condition. The results are shown in Table 1, and the following conclusions can be drawn.
1. In the total calorie intake or in the intakes of carbohydrate, fat and protein, their nutritive state was far better than that of the national average of the corresponding periods.
2. The daily total calorie provided (3, 420 to 4, 090 Cal) was sufficient or quite surpassed the daily calculated requirements of the players.
3. The protein level was comparatively high, and could even be regarded as a high protein diet.
4. The diet could also be taken as favourable, being characterized by a high ratio of animal and vegetable proteins (the ratio was calculated as 6: 4).
5. Calcium and vitamin A intakes were amazingly meagre, which require much improvements in future. Vitamins B1 B2, and C maintained numerically the standard. requirements, but when the losses due to cooking (roughly50%) were taken into account, it is highly desirable that those should have been increased.
6. More considerations should be paid with regard to the supply of either inorganicsalts or vitamins
