International Comparative Study of Nutritional Transition in Asia

在这项研究中，主要目的是考察亚洲饮食和健康在历史和地理上的变化，并展望该地区未来的食品和营养前景。日本在过去几十年里发展了社会经济，在饮食和营养条件方面取得了很大进展。本研究与亚洲国家的社区营养研究人员、本国情况及日本战后营养转型的经验，探讨区域公共健康营养政策的形成。在研究的第一年，在韩国首尔举行的第八届亚洲营养大会上，组织了来自日本、韩国、马来西亚、泰国、菲律宾及印尼的研究人员合作，举办了一场时长两小时的“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，探讨这一新的研究课题。研究小组在这六个国家组织了“关于同一家庭中双重形式的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浮出水面。特别是营养问题的两个极端--儿童营养不良和肥胖，被确定为亚洲地区的新问题。我们使用相同的方案在六个国家开始了调查研究，以提供在地方层面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举行。我们正在安排一份最后报告，并将在2001年在维也纳举行的国际营养大会上作介绍。

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.