著者名(別言語) | TSUJIMOTO, Yoko / OKUDA, Toyoko / KOYAMA, Tatsuya / YOSHITA, Katsushi |
抄録・内容(英) | A questionnaire survey of daily life evaluated the diet of 288 elementary school children from Grades 3 to 6 (157 boys, 131 girls) in the Osaka Prefecture. Using this data, we examined the relationship between the frequency of breakfast consumption and their dietary habits, dietary awareness, dietary behaviors, and health conditions (including the degree of obesity). (1) Regulating their daily lives and diet created an environment that encouraged them to eat breakfast, increase their dietary awareness, and communicate with their families, leading to the opportunity to consume breakfast every day. (2) Breakfast was associated with the rhythm of daily life (e.g., bedtime) and with dietary behaviors that increased their enjoyment of meals, such as eating meals with their families, assisting with meal preparation, and making conversation during the meal. Eating breakfast daily also improved their health conditions, leading to an increased motivation to learn. In addition, increasing their dietary awareness led to more frequent breakfast consumption. (3) Regularly consuming breakfast helped to regulate their daily lives and diet, leading to improvements in their physical health. In addition, consuming breakfast with their families and enjoying breakfast led to more frequent breakfast consumption. Among elementary school children, the dietary behaviors and awareness of the parents and guardians, or their employment patterns, may be strongly related to the children skipping breakfast. To avoid skipping breakfast, the maintenance of social environments (including economic consideration) is a critical factor. In the future, it is necessary to develop and promote a comprehensive approach, based on our data from the Osaka Prefecture, which includes the response to parents and children and the maintenance of social environments. |