In order to obtain interdisciplinary data to generally contribute to health and longevity, nutritional and psychosomatic studies were conducted regarding the oldest living male in the world. His daily life pattern and food intakes were studied and the simplified questionnaire on behavioral pattern was used to conduct a psychosomatic health survey. The subject took breakfast, lunch, between-meal-snack and supper regularly and the daily menus were somewhat fixed. His daily meals contained foods other than fruits, soft drinks, sea-weeds, and eggs. His intakes of energy, protein, carbohydrate, dietary fibers, cholesterol, vitamins A, B1 and B2, iron, calcium and salt-equivalent were assumed to satisfy the recommended values, but those of lipid, saturated fatty acid and potassium slightly varied from the recommended values, but they were not problematic. The total score of the simplified behavioral pattern questionnaire was 12. The subject was considered to be taking meals containing right amounts of nutrients daily, and also that his chances of developing clinical ischemic heart diseases were slight because of the low score of the questionnaire result.

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