Nutritional Study of Obesity among Children (Part 2)

We organized a class of 18 obese children during summer vacation for the purpose of studying the relation between nutrition and physical development, especially centering in their way of spending time, nutrition intake and consequent weight change.(1) Their heat value intake per day was reduced to 1, 600-1, 300 calories, and as a new method of satisfying the resultant hunger feeling of children, they were served with soup before meals, which proved to be effective.(2) The balance of nutrition intake, excepting heat value and sugar, in its nutritions quality, was kept more adequately during the term of their lodging together here for training than before, and despite of the decrease in their weight, children were in a good state of health.(3) The ratio of the constituents of the nourishment taken in here indicated that the degree of dependence of their calorie intake upon cereals before they joined this training was higher in each group, and animal protein intake during the term of their lodging together here for training was in much higher proportion than the attainable standard in the 45th year of Showa.(4) Food, except cereals, was taken in larger quantity during their staying here for training, and effective difference was recognized in the case of vegetable food. As for animal food, individual difference was great, which was not recognized in their intake of cereals.(5) Their weight changed during their staying here for training, and group II and group III respectively showed the decrease of 4.0% and 4.6%.