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KMID : 0386819940040020028
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Journal of the Institute of Health Environmental Sciences
1994 Volume.4 No. 2 p.28 ~ p.37
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A Study on Nutrition of Preschool Children of Low Socio-Economic Group in Seoul
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Abstract
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This study have reviewed the nutritional status of pre-school children of the low income area in Seoul, based on the survey data from 1977 to 1987. The nutritional status of children was assessed by anthropometric method and diet method.
@ES The results of the study were summarized as follow:
@EN 1. About 47 percentage of pre-school children of the low income area in Seoul corresponded to mild malnutritional stage assessed by anthropometric method in 1977. It decreased to 4% in 1983.
2. Assessed by diet method, their total daily calori intakes were in normal range compared to recommended dietary allowance. But their daily intake amounts of protein, calcium, iron and vitamins(except thiamin) represented defficient compared
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recommended dietary allowance and those of children of other area in Seoul.
These results implicate that their inferior physical development condition was caused by their poor nutritional status. Therefore, nutritional education programs should be planned and performed for their parents and the quality and extent of day
care
lunch such area should be improved.
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