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The 26th "Japan Three-Day March", Japan's biggest walking event of the year, hosted by Hi-gashimatsuyama City in Saitama Prefecture and it was held from November 1 st to 3 rd in 2003 around the Hiki-District in the Prefecture. We participated in this event in Japan, as a volunteer team to support this event by measuring useful health parameters of the walkers who wanted to know their own health conditions, and also by providing necessary nutritional and health information to them. As health parameters, body weight and height, blood pressure, bone densities, and hemoglobin contents in peripheral blood of the walkers were measured, if they wanted, and some investigations on their daily food consumptions and exercise habits were also made. In this preliminary report, only the results of the measurements of BMI (Body Mass Index) and hemoglobin contents will be discussed. 1) Five hundred and sixty walkers wanted to know their own hemoglobin contents, and they were consisted of 185 male walkers (average age : 61.2 years old) and 375 female ones (average age : 57.7 years old). The percentage of the walkers whose hemoglobin contents were lower than the standard values of Japanese people of the same age was about one half of the percentage reported in the recent national nutritional survey. 2) Five hundred and one walkers were calculated BMI values. The values of elderly walkers (age : 60～70 years old ) were lower than the averaged values of the ordinary people of the same age given in the recent national nutritional survey. For instance, in the case of male walkers in their sixties, the percentage of the walkers whose BMI values were above 25 was about 20 %, while that of the ordinary people of the same age and similar BMI values reported in the national nutritional survey was 30 %. Similarly, in the case of female walkers of sixties, the percentage of the walkers whose BMI values were above 25 was about 15 %, while those reported in the national nutritional survey was 30 %. |
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