A Study of the Way to Ameliorate Living Habits-For People With Hyperlipidemia- / 日本農村医学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

As a strategy for making people in enjoy good health by preventing disease, various forms of guidance for improvement of lifestyle have been recently been introduced. The purpose of the health guidance is to help people who do not have a disease but have abnormality in their physical examination data change their behavior patterns of daily living habits.<BR>In this study, we chose local residents with hyperlipidemia as the subjects of this study and carried out the guidance for one year for improvement of their lifestyle focusing eating habits and physical exercise in order to improve their serum lipid levels. We looked at the effects of this intervention activity on their conciousness and behavior, and the values of their body weight, body fat and other biochemical blood test results. When their living habits between before and after our intervention activity were compared, the residents had more interested in meals and physical exercises, and improved their dietary habits, especially on the in take of eggs, vegetables, eating between meals and salt. In addition, analysis of residents' nutritive values supported this result.<BR>Our investigation also indicated a tendency of increase in the frequency of physical exercise expect for working time after our intervention activity. The values of total cholesterol, body weight, obesity and fasting blood sugar in the general and blood examinations significantly reduced.<BR>Altogether, our intervention activity proved to be effective in changing people's conciousness and personal lifestyle at, and improving the values of body weight and serum lipid.