著者

江藤 ひろみ 北野 直子 南 久則

出版者

日本食生活学会

雑誌

日本食生活学会誌 (ISSN:13469770)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.20, no.3, pp.195-202, 2009-12-30 (Released:2010-01-26)

参考文献数

21

被引用文献数

3 1

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Children's development is affected by food habits, which are influenced by guardians' dietary awareness. We conducted a nutritional survey using a questionnaire about school meal system and guardians' knowledge of children's food and health in 41 public and 115 private kindergartens in Kumamoto prefecture. We also surveyed lunch programs at 9 kindergartens.  There were 4 groups of lunch programs, as follows: (1) Taking one's own lunch box and drinking milk provided by kindergarten, (2) Providing lunch from public school lunch center, (3) Providing lunch prepared by kindergarten and (4) Providing lunch through a catering service. There was no nutritional management system in kindergarten, using (1), (3) or (4). We observe that there were significant differences in the contents of breakfast and snack among the 4 groups and that suppertime was also significantly different among the groups. Looking at the contents of breakfast, intake of sweet rolls was [significantly] high in (4). In (4), also, suppertime was significantly later than in the other three groups. These results indicated that the eating habits of children were influenced by the daily life patterns of their families.  Only the meal contents of group (2) were managed by a school dietician. Dietary awareness of the guardians of group (2) was relatively high, and it seemed that their meal contents were appropriate.