International Comparative Study of Nutritional Transition in Asia

在这项研究中，主要目的是研究亚洲在历史和地理上的饮食和健康变化，并展望该地区未来的食物和营养前景。在过去的几十年里，日本的社会经济得到了发展，在饮食和营养状况方面取得了很大的进步。本研究与亚洲各国社区营养研究人员一起，考察了亚洲各国的国情和日本在二战后营养转型中的经验，以制定区域公共卫生营养政策的形成。在研究的第一年，由日本、韩国、马来西亚、泰国、菲律宾和印度尼西亚的研究人员组成的协作系统在韩国首尔举行的第8届b>亚洲营养大会上组织并举办了为期两小时的“亚洲营养转型与健康”研讨会。然后，研究小组于2000年2月在吉隆坡举行了另一次研讨会，探讨新的研究课题。研究小组在这六个国家组织了“同一家庭双重形式营养不良的多中心研究”。随着亚洲营养转型的继续，许多营养和健康问题也随之出现。特别是营养问题的两个极端，即儿童营养不良和肥胖，被确定为亚洲地区的新问题。我们在六个国家开始了调查研究，使用相同的方案来提供在地方一级研究的营养转变的证据。2001年2月，研究人员的最后一次会议在东京召开。我们正在准备一份最终报告，并将于2001年在维也纳举行的国际营养大会上发表。

In this research, the main objective is to examine the dietary and health changes historically and geographically in Asia and to look into the future perspective of food and nutrition in the region. Japan has developed socio-economically in the last several decades showing much progress in dietary and nutritional condition. In this study, along with researchers of community nutrition in the Asian countries, their own countries situation and Japanese experiences in the nutrition transition after the second world war were examined to develop a regional public health nutrition policy formation.In the first year of the research, the collaboration system of the researchers from Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia was organized and held a two-hour-workshop on "Nutrition Transition and Health in Asia" in the 8^<th> Asian Congress of Nutrition in Seoul, Korea. Then, the research group had another workshop exploring the new research topic in Kuala Lumpur in February 2000.The researchers group organized "Multi-Center Study on Dual Forms of Malnutrition in the Same Households" in these six countries. As the nutritional transition in Asia goes on, many of the nutritional and health problems come out. Especially two extreme ends of nutritional problems, malnutrition and obesity in children, were identified as the new problems in the Asian region. We began the survey research in the six countries using the same protocol to offer the evidences of Nutritional Transition studied at local levels.In February 2001, the final meeting of the researchers was organized in Tokyo. We are arranging a final report and going to present at the International Congress of Nutrition in Vienna in 2001.