The present study collected data on 117 second-grade students and 106 sixth-grade students at S elementary school and N elementary school in Saitama Prefecture regarding bedtime and rising time to elucidate the effect of early bedtimes and rising times on their diets and daily schedules. The effects of the duration and contents of daily physical activities on the students’ physique type and diets were also investigated. The results were as follows.
1. The rising time, breakfast starting time, and dinner starting time were earlier, and the time from the rising time to the breakfast starting time was longer in the “early-bedtime and early-rising time group” than in the “late-bedtime and late-rising time group.” The “early-bedtime and early-rising time group” also had longer sleeping hours.
2. The outdoor activity hours of the subjects of present study tended to be long in both the “early-bedtime and early-rising time group” and the “late-bedtime and late-rising time group” of both grades.
3. Most students ate breakfast ; however, many did not eat a balanced breakfast (consisting of staple food, main dish, and drink and/or miso soup).

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This study investigated bone mass and the dietary property among 30 male workers (mean age ; 46.4y) and 58 female workers (mean age ; 47.4y) who participated in nutritional education program at their workplace. We objectively measured bone mass using a quantitative ultrasound device, body weight, and body fat. Additionally, we conducted a questionnaire survey for dietary habit and a experience of bone mass measurement.
The T - score indicates the osteo sono assessment index (OSI), and was compared with that of 20-44-year-old subjects. The rate of T - scores <90%, showing that subjects require educational intervention, was 13.3% for males and 22.4% for females. Moreover, the rate of T - scores <80%, indicating that subjects require subsequent medical checkups, was 0% for males and 5.2% for females. The rate of subjects who had experienced bone mass measurement significantly differed between the sexes (6.7% for males and 32.8% for females, p <0.01). Sixty-two percent had undergone bone mass measurement at a hospital, 24% at a health promotion event, and 14% at a public health center.
Further studies are needed to examine whether bone mass measurement as part of a nutritional education program in occupational settings has a positive effect on workers to improve their own eating habits to prevent osteoporosis.

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1. Background
To observe how the taste in foods of present women’s university students have been influenced and changed from their childhood likes and dislikes of food and to use this basic data for dietary guidance.
2. Method
Questionnaires were administered over a two month period from May to July 2010 to 618 students in J Women’s University of Human Life Sciences in Tokyo.
3. Results
The response to questionnaires was 99% (611 students). 29% of the respondents had a food that they both liked and disliked at some time during childhood and 24% of the respondents still have a food that they feel the same way about presently. 82% of the food liked during childhood continued to be liked into becoming a university student. 84% of the foods they disliked during childhood continued to be disliked into university student. The 18% of favorite childhood foods that dropped out of the respondents’ top favorite foods as they became university student consisted of noodles, broccoli, cucumber, watermelon, mushrooms, peanuts, shrimp, fish sausage and soda. The 16% of disliked childhood foods that dropped out of the respondents’ top most disliked foods as they became university student consisted of bread, grapefruit, natto, yogurt, sunny-side up egg, salmon roe, saury, and mayonnaise.
4. Conclusion
Our results suggest that taste in foods do not change greatly between childhood and reaching university student age. For dietary guidance the basic data indicates that healthy eating habits must be established in early childhood as these habits persist into later life.

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