2000 Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 25-37
We made a follow-up study for one year to elucidate what kind of lifestyle changes to prevent obesity and lifestyle-related disease in a city, Yamagata. The results were as follows. 1. The facts that changes in both stress level and sleeping hours were correlated with variation in weight and BMI (body mass index) showed that stress management and relaxation training were necessasry to health guidance for preventing obesity and lifestyle-related disease. 2. According to changes in fish/meat intake or frequencies for a week, systolic pressure changed and reduced. 3. The fact that as changes in food intake or eating between meals changes weight of BMI showed the possibillity that restriction on both food intake and eating between meals were effective to reduction on one's weight or prevention of hyperlipemia. 4. By taking vitamin drugs TG, HDL-C, LDL-C and AI changed. And changes in fruit intake produced alteration of TG. 5. Prohibition of smoking status produce the reduction of TC and TG. 6. Changes in frequencies of drinking resulted in alteration of HbAlc. The restriction on excessive drinking attributed it to prevent the abnormality of glucose tolerance. 7. Weight, BMI and body fat % had a significantly positive correlation with TC, TG and blood pressure. The reduction of one's weight was effective to prevent both hyperlipemia and hypertension. Changes in body fat % had a higher correlation with TG and TC than BMI or weight.
