The Japanese Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics
Online ISSN : 1883-7921
Print ISSN : 0021-5147
ISSN-L : 0021-5147
Volume 38, Issue 3
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  • Masako Miyama, Chiyoko Iwade, Shigemaro Takahashi, Masayuki Akabane
    1980 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 145-154
    Published: May 25, 1980
    Released on J-STAGE: October 29, 2010
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    For Japanese there seems to be a difference between demand for breakfast and demand for supper. So we studied the food intake pattern at breakfast and supper by surveying the types-of dishes eaten by 595 households with 2, 202 members living in Tokyo.
    The results are as follows:
    1. Breakfast dishes were divided into 2 groups, whether or not all members of the families ate the same food. One is the group centering on rice and the other is that centering on bread.
    2. There is a difference in food intake pattern between breakfast and supper, presumably-due to eating habits of Japanese.
    3. Food intake pattern tends to be similar among those households whose family make-up resembled one another.
    4. Even in the same family, all members do not necessarily eat the same dishes. However, there is a similarity in food intake between husband and wife and between children in the same family.
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  • Yasuo Kagawa, Hiroshi Iwata, Hatsunori Ohta, Yoshinori Kudo, Shinji Mu ...
    1980 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 155-162
    Published: May 25, 1980
    Released on J-STAGE: October 29, 2010
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    In order to elucidate a large north-south difference in salt intake of Japanese, salt metabolism and preference among dormitory students at Jichi Medical School, who come from different parts of Japan (2-3 per prefecture), were analyzed. In the cafeteria, the students chose their own dishes in accordance with their preference, and the salt contents of the three meals were analyzed by Na-electrode. On the other hand, 24 hour urine of each student was collected and analyzed. At the same time salt preference data were collected. Experiments were repeated in 1978 and 1979:
    Japan, average Southern areas Northern areas(1978)
    Urine Na+ 188.2±65.9 178.3±63.4 202.9±60.6 (mEq/24hr)
    Urine Cl- 179.6±55.6 172.4±54.3 189.8±53.9 (mEq/24hr)
    Diet Na+ 187.5±92.2 170.5±88.6 218.8±94.9 (mEq/24hr)
    These small differences observed in 1978 (102 students) were also found in 1979 (106 students), while there were no significant differences in urinary K+ (43.9±14.4mEq/24hr), creatinine (1435±363mg/24hr), urea N (7.01±1.79g/24hr), body weight (61.9±7.2kg), height (169.92±5.36cm), blood pressure (122.3±11.4/75.9±8.0) and creatinine coefficient (23.25±2.58mg/24hr/kg, male). As the cause of these differences there was an extreme difference in salt preference between south-and north-originated students (χ2 was 6.77 in 1978, and 11.6 in 1979). These differences were plotted on the map of Japan.
    Although the salt intake of Japanese is still very high, the extremely high intake in northern Japanese will decrease because of westernized eating habits among young people and the change in life styles.
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  • Snacks for Children and Persons in Charge of Them and Its Effect on Their Appetite
    Akiyo Arai
    1980 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 163-170
    Published: May 25, 1980
    Released on J-STAGE: October 29, 2010
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    The author's survey of the effect of snacks on the appetite of 131 one-and-a-half-year-old and three-year-old children has revealed the following:
    1. A high percentage of the children and the people in charge of them took all kinds of snacks. Fifty per cent of them took potato chips, snack cakes, arare, sembei, milk, ice cream, mineral water, fruit juice, bananas, water melons, yakisoba, buns, pudding, etc.
    2. A large percentage of both the children and the people in charge of them took drops, biscuits, lactic acid beverages, yoghurt and pudding.
    3. In the case of the three-year-old children, caramel, chocolate and chewing-gum were their main favorites, the percentage being 40-50%. The same was the case with the one-and-a-half-year-old children, though the percentage was lower.
    4. Coffee and black tea were drunk by a high percentage of the people in charge of the children. The same was true of Japanese style confection.
    5. Twenty per cent of the children, satiated with snacks, left almost all of their usual meals uneaten, and 55%-60% managed to eat them though they left over part of them. The intake of snacks tends to diminish the appetite.
    6. With regard to cakes, Japanese unbaked cakes, chewing gum, candy, chocolate, which are popularly referred to as ‘undesirable snacks’, those who took them managed to eat their usual meals but left some portion untouched, while those who did not left hardly anything uneaten.
    7. Concerning the effect of lactic acid beverages on appetite, many of those who were given them at random did not feel like eating their usual meals and left most of them untouched, while on the other hand many of those who were given them in a fixed quantity and at a fixed time ate almost all of their usual meals, leaving hardly anything untouched.
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  • Mitsuru Kakimoto
    1980 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 171-175
    Published: May 25, 1980
    Released on J-STAGE: October 29, 2010
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    The author studied the relationships between crude fiber intake and dental caries by multivariate analysis.
    The subjects were 108 female students aged 18 and 19 years.
    Crude fiber intake was based on a nutrition survey for three entire weekdays.
    The status of students suffering from dental caries was shown by the DMF tooth rate.
    A negative correlation was found to exist between DMF tooth rate and intake of total crude fiber, vegetables, and mushrooms.
    The correlation matrix was subjected to principal component analysis, and four principal components, Z1 through Z4, were obtained.
    Their cumulative contribution rate was 66.4%.
    By orthogonal rotation of the four principal components, four new factors, F1 though F4, were found.
    The factor that related dental caries to crude fiber intake was F1.
    The contribution of F1 was 27.3%.
    It was suggested that crude fiber might be able to provide protection against dental caries.
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  • Yoshifumi Iwasaki, Mitsuru Aono, Norihiko Aoki
    1980 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 177-180
    Published: May 25, 1980
    Released on J-STAGE: October 29, 2010
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    To define the type and form of dietary fibers with the greatest potential use in diabetic treatment. 12 healthy volunteers underwent a 50g glucose tolerance test with the addition of both hydrated and nonhydrated forms of cellulose, wheat bran and rice bran. The addition of cellulose (nonhydrated) and wheat bran (hydrated) reduced the serum insulin concentration at one point during the GTT, whereas no reduction of blood glucose was observed by any of these substances. Low viscosity type dietary fibers in any form are therefore likely to be less effective in modifying postprandial hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia.
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