Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the trend of health education to general menopause women in the literature for the past ten years.
Methods: Databases including the ERIC database, the PubMed database, a Japanese database GeNii, CiNii, and “Igaku-chuo-zasshi” were searched for articles in the approximately past ten years from 1997 to 2007 using keywords of “menopause” and “education”. Then, the studies in patientsand testees and the studies of therapeutic purposes were excluded and the intervention studies ongeneral women in menopause were analyzed.
Results: There were 19 overseas articles. There main issues were dietary counseling such as low fat diet for obesity and osteoporosis, information about bone density and muscular strength and exercises that paid an attention to menopausal symptoms. In addition, there was a study on the information about health promotion after menopause. There were 8 Japanese articles. There was an intervention study of exercise with spa treatment or nutrition education. As an effective health support for behavior modification and menopausal affirmative recognition, a coping strategy for menopausal symptoms, an offer of complex information and educational supports based on self-care has been presented. Health education taking account of times, methods such as computers or documents and places may raise satisfaction to determine healthy action by oneself, which suggested to increase one's knowledge.
Conclusion: The future education for general menopausal women have to be based on a programs aiming at self-capability and include exercise, nutrition and complex information taking account of times, methods and places.

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Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among physical condition and fitness, alcohol habits, dietary habits, subjective health and life satisfaction and to find the factors associated with life satisfaction.
Methods: Questionnaire studies were performed for elderly people(male: 91, female: 149) in Saga prefecture. Elderly people were asked pain in the lower extremity, physical fitness, alcohol habits, dietary habits, subjective health and life satisfaction. One way analysis of variance was used to explore the association between each factor mentioned above. The factors associated with life satisfaction were analyzed using multiple logistic regression analysis.
Results: Physical fitness of women was significantly lower than that of men. About 50% of elderly people had lower extremity pain and they had lower physical fitness and subjective health compared to those with no pain in the lower extremity. Subjective health of elderly people with above average physical fitness was significantly higher than those with below average physical fitness. Dietary habits of elderly people aged over 75 years were more preferable than those of elderly people aged 65-74 years. Significantly higher life satisfaction was found in elderly people with better dietary habits. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed that subjective health {odds ratio 1.66(95% CI 1.03-2.70)}, and alcohol habits {odds ratio 3.56(95% CI 1.29-9.80)} were associated with life satisfaction of elderly people.
Conclusion: Life satisfaction was associated with subjective health and alcohol habits.

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Objective: To examine whether mottainai, a feeling of sadness that arises when one produces waste, is a psychosocial predictor of leftover food among elementary school students.
Methods: A self-reported cross-sectional questionnaire survey was given to 2070 students in grades 5 and 6. The questionnaire asked about mottainai and predictors of vegetable intake, such as preference, outcome expectancy, school gardening, parental pressure to eat, and the frequency of eating various foods. The genders were analyzed separately because the predictors of vegetable intake are reported to differ by sex.
Results: In all, 1994 children completed the questionnaire. Girls were more likely to leave more food than boys. While other predictors of leftover food differed by sex, the predictor of vegetable preference had the strongest relationship to leftover food, followed by feeling mottainai.
Conclusion: Feeling mottainai is a predictor of leftover food and had the second -greatest effect after vegetable preference. These results suggest that intensifying mottainai and the preference for vegetables will reduce amounts of leftover food.

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