Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 1997, 183 (1)

Urban-Rural Comparison of Nutrient Intake by Adult Women in Shandong Province, China

JIANG-BIN QU, ZUO-WEN ZHANG,1 GUI-FA XU,2 LI-HUA SONG,3 JI-JUN WANG, SHINICHIRO SHIMBO,4 TAKAO WATANABE,5 HARUO NAKATSUKA,6 KAE HIGASHIKAWA7 and MASAYUKI IKEDA7

Department of Hygiene, Faculty of Public Health, Shandong Medical University, Jinan 250012, Shandong, China, 1Department of Public Health, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto 606-01, 2Department of Nutritional Hygiene, Faculty of Public Health, Shandong Medical University, Jinan 250012, Shandong, China, 3Health Bureau, Zhangqiu city, Zhangqiu 250200, Shandong, China, 4Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto 605, 5Miyagi University of Education, Sendai 980, 6Miyagi University, Taiwa-cho 981-33, and 7Kyoto Industrial Health Association, Kyoto 604

  • In 1996, 24-hour food duplicate samples were collected from two groups of 50 nonsmoking women each; one group was in Jinan, the capital city for of Shandong Province in China, and the other in a farming village in Zhangqiu area some 30 km away from the city. They had also physical examinations including hematology and serum biochemistry tests. Nutritional analysis of the duplicate samples were conducted utilizing standard food composition tables for Chinese populations. The urban-rural comparison between the two groups showed that women in Zhangqiu took significantly less lipid (54 g/day) and more carbohydrate (335 g/day) than Jinan counterparts (76 g lipid and 254 g carbohydrate/day), although there was no significant difference in total energy and protein intake (1968 kcal/day in Jinan vs. 2071 kcal/day in Zhangqiu, and 67 g protein/day in Jinan vs. 61 g/day in Zhangqiu). The intakes of the three major nutrients were sufficient in majorities of members in both groups. Iron intake was also sufficient (22 and 25 mg/day in Jinan and Zhangqiu, respectively), but intake of calcium was insufficient in more than a half of the subjects in both groups. Zhangqiu women heavily depended on plant-based foods both for protein and lipid, whereas the dependency was less remarkable among Jinan women.
    Key words--- Continental China; middle-aged women; nutrition; plant-based food; urban-rural difference
    © 1997 Tohoku University Medical Press

    Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 1997, 183, 21-36
    Address for reprints: Professor Masayuki Ikeda, Kyoto Industrial Health Association, 67 Nishinokyo-Kitatsuboicho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604, Japan.

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