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"Food Guide" with Easy Illustration Publicized
On June 21, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) published an illustrated version of new dietary guidelines to show at a glance how much of what to eat in a day, naming it "Balanced Food Guide." They intend to make a poster for this as early as in August to be put on walls of convenience stores, restaurants etc. and to promote it in a national campaign.
"Balanced Food Guide" shows yardsticks of cuisines in general terms so people who do not necessarily have good knowledge about nutrition can comprehend what is important about the food they eat.
The illustrated guide lists sample menues for a daily intake by breaking foods into five groups of "staples", "supplementary dishes", "major side dishes", "milk & milk products" and "friuts." Unit volume of cusine is expressed as "a serving", an English word meaning "one (dish)." For example, the guide shows by illustration that "between 5 to 7 SVs" are necessary in a day for staple foods and that "1 SV" of staple can be "one small bowl of rice", "2 SVs" can be "one bowl of noodles."
The guide tells that even with different choice of menues, an adult person will be taking some 2,200 Kilo calories of energy considered necessary and keep nutritional balance in so far as a person eats within a fixed number of servings from each group.
The guide will also give special message to special targets such as outweighted persons or single persons so they can follow ideal dieatary life.
See
http://www.maff.go.jp/www/press/cont2/20050621press_2b.pdf
for full illustration.
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