2021 Volume 15 Issue 4 Pages 197-208
Dietary and health education in schools is essential for child development. The present study’s primary purpose was to create a system that comprehensively supports children in collaboration with schools, communities, parents, and university researchers and to develop effective programs for dietary education and physical fitness improvement. The second purpose was to examine the effects of the program after the implementation of the one-year intervention using objective quantitative indicators. The subjects were 45 elementary school students (22 boys and 23 girls). Before the intervention, we conducted surveys and measurements to extract the subjects’ issues and developed a program centered on miso soup and fun physical activity. After the intervention, similar indicators were measured, and changes were considered. The anthropometry measurements (morphology and body composition, bone strength, and anemia index), cognitive function, dietary survey, physical activity survey, and 20m shuttle run were conducted. As a result, the indicators of dietary status, physical fitness, and cognitive function were found to be interrelated, suggesting that the intervention program collaborated with dietary education and physical fitness improvement implemented by the comprehensive support system may enhance the children’s health.
