Abstract
A survey of knowledge concerning osteoporosis prevention and habits in daily life among 48 female college students was performed in city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka. The evaluation consisted of a focused history of habits until 18 years of age and consciousness of osteoporosis prevention among them and the people around them.54% had been given some advice for osteoporosis prevention by people around them untl 18 years of age. Most of contents of the advice,47% of the total, was associated with calcium intake. A significant correlation was noted between the habit of eating small fish and being given some advice concerning osteoporosis prevention until 18 years of age. There were tendencies in which students having received the advice also had had a habit of a daily intake of milk except for schooll lunches since six years of age, and in which students not given some advice for the intake of food containing rich calcium at home had a habit of eating instant food. The present study revealed that giving young people concrete knowledge concerning health promotion would be effective in imroving their eating habits.
