Abstract
Four representative districts were selected here to do study explaining farmer's status of food consumption and the nutritional examination data in Tokushima prefecture; that is, the districts in seaside (Mugi, 1976), in mountains (Yamashiro, 1977), in plainly area among the mountains (Ikeda, 1979) and in plain (Ichiba, 1978) which were surveyed for four years. The relationship between the structure of food consumption and nutritional examination data was shown in the matrix of correlation coefficient respectively on four districts in Tokushima prefecture divided due to the topography. Using multiple factors analysis, the authors indicated a tendency that male weight and obesity were larger in cases of traditional food habits than in cases of modern. It is interesting that the activities of GOT and GPT in serum were higher in cases of modern dietary group than those of traditional. In the districts of a larger intake of food, there are positive correlation among height, body weight, obesity, diastolic blood pressure, hematocrit, serum total cholesterol and alkaline phosphatase. Nevertheless in women, age, GOT, GPT and serum cholesterol ester showed negative correlations. This report showed that “the two-dimensional diagram of food consumption” should be a method of available to research the relation between the difference of food habits and the healthy conditions of inhabitants from geographical aspects.
