Abstract
A survey was performed for assessing the nutritional states of the children of the agricultural district who are living uncomfortably from the economical and cultural viewpoint. Body height and weight, nitrogen, creatinine and riboflavin in the urine, vitamin A and riboflavin in the blood, and the basal metabolism were determined.
Body height and weight of the children of the agricultural district were considerably inferior to that of the children of the urban district, but the Kaup's index for the former children was normal.
Nitrogen, creatinine and riboflavin seemed to be excreted in a small amount. However, thereby we can not draw a definite conclusion that they are deficient in protein and riboflavin.
A lesser amount of urinary creatinine and the inferior growth of body height and weight may be due to the pubertal spurt of the agricultural district get in later time as compared with that of the urban children. Further research needs to be done in this area. Basal metabolic rate was almost in normal range.
Contrary to speculation, we could not confirm that the children of the agricultural district were undernourished, so far as we had surveyed.
