著者

中出 佳操

出版者

北翔大学

雑誌

人間福祉研究 = Human welfare studies (ISSN:13440039)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, pp.121-131, 2007

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Obesity is a growing health problem in the United States. One fifth of the American suffer from it, and one third are overweight. As this is becoming a socio-economic problem resulting in a remarkable increase in health expenditure, Congress started to take measures to cope with the issue. In Japan obesity is also on the rise, though not as much as in the United States. In addition to that other problems such as unbalanced diet, extinction of traditional food culture and unsafe food products have been observed, which led to the enforcement of the Diet Education Law in 2005. In this paper, we discuss the reality of diet education for high school students in Japan, also paying attention to the diet problems of the United States.