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KMID : 0377619720220020189
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1972 Volume.22 No. 2 p.189 ~ p.193
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Nutritive Conditions of Nursery Inmates
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Abstract
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Nutritive conditions of 168 infants, aged one year to 6 years, had been examined for a one year period covering January through December 1971.
The subjects were picked from among inmates of two nurseries located in Pusan, Korea, which are being financed by a foreign child care organization. The nurseries, names of which are withheld at this examiner´s discretion, accommodate local children from poverty-stricken families with their mothers working for living.
The youngsters including the subjects spend at the nurseries from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., six days a week, taking three meals a day and a 2-hour afternoon nap following lunch. Apparently fed well, a vast majority of the inmates was reported taking no extra meals back at home. Recipe for their meals varies each day, each week for a month to repeat the cycle.
The following findings have been obtained through the survey.
(1) Their intake of Calorie and Niacin fell short of the Korea´s Official Nutritive Standards.
(2) Their intake of Calcium, Fe, V-A, V-Bi and V-B2 somewhat exceeded the Korea´s Official Nutritive Standards.
(3) Their intake of Protein and Vitamin C was of about the same level as specified by the Korea´s Official Nutritive Standards.
(4) Their physical growth, especially of their height and weight, was visibly rapid, compared to the time of their admission to the nurseries, and in the one-year time surveyed, their growth rate by and large had attained higher rates than the Korea´s Standard Physical Growth Table.
Conclusion: It may be concluded that good living conditions, combined with proper rest and regular way of life, is as much a contributing factor as sufficient nutrition to children’s health and their normal physical growth.
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