Lifestyle and bowel movements in school children: Results from the Toyama Birth Cohort Study

Yamada, Masaaki; Sekine, Michikazu; Tatsuse, Takashi

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“…Dumuid et al [3] reported that poor AP has been linked with unhealthy diet, shorter SD, longer screen time, and less PA. Interestingly, short SD is known to cause an increase in body mass index (BMI) [4], which is also associated with basic daily habits of sleeping, eating, and PA [5]. In addition, among schoolchildren in Japan, skipping breakfast, physical inactivity, and late wake up are known to be significantly related to irregular bowel movements, and long TV viewing and late bed time have been reported to be significantly related to non-daily bowel movements [6]. Thus, self-reported AP is hypothesized to be associated with BMI and defecation habits, in addition to habits related to sleeping, screen time, breakfast intake, and PA.…”

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Self-Reported Academic Performance and Lifestyle Habits of School Children in Japan

Kohyama¹

2017

Int. J. Child Health Nutr.

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Background and Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the lifestyle habits significantly associated with self-reported academic performance (AP) in children in grades 5 to 12 in Japan.Methods: A total of 2,114 completed questionnaires were analyzed. Factors examined included habits related to sleeping, eating, defecation, physical activity, and screen time, in addition to body mass index (BMI). Social jet lag (SJL) was calculated from sleeping factors and categorized into five groups according to its value: minus 1 or less (SJL 1), more than minus 1 and 0 or less (SJL 2), more than 0 and 1 or less (SJL 3), more than 1 and 2 or less (SJL 4), and more than 2 (SJL 5). The association between self-reported AP and other factors except for SJL was assessed by means of multinomial logistic regression analysis.Results: Factors significantly associated with good self-reported AP included female gender, lower grade, less sleepiness, lower BMI, intake of breakfast, less constipation, early wake-up time during the weekend, and short screen time during the weekend. The mean self-reported AP of SJL 3 was better than that of both SJL 5 and SJL 1.Conclusions: Self-reported AP was associated with gender, grade, BMI, sleep, breakfast, defecation, and screen time in children in grades 5 to 12 in Japan. It must be ensured that children take enough time to perform the indispensable human behaviors of sleeping, eating, defecation, and physical activity.

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Self-Reported Academic Performance and Lifestyle Habits of School Children in Japan

Kohyama¹

2017

Int. J. Child Health Nutr.

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“…If parents have little interest in healthy dietary habits, they may not know that eating healthy meals as a family is important for promoting their children's health and protecting against unhealthy conditions, such as obesity and constipation. 5,6 Therefore, we suggest that if parental lifestyle factors are undesirable, parents are more likely to let their children eat breakfast alone. Furthermore, children eating breakfast alone was also associated with the existence of other family members.…”

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“…[1][2][3][4][5] Furthermore, undesirable lifestyle factors, especially with respect to dietary habits, are possible risk factors for constipation, feelings regarding school avoidance, and poor quality of life (QOL). [6][7][8] Therefore, improving dietary habits via nutrition education is important for promoting the health of children. In 2005, Japan enacted the Basic Law on Shokuiku, the first law to promote healthy diets and eating habits among the Japanese population.…”

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Relationship Between Parental Lifestyle and Dietary Habits of Children: A Cross-Sectional Study

Tenjin

Sekine

Yamada

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Journal of Epidemiology

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Background: Although parents seek the best for their children, nutrition education for parents has attracted little attention to improve their children's dietary habits. To address this gap, this study aimed to examine the relationship between parental lifestyle factors and children's dietary habits. Methods: We used data from the questionnaire survey of the Super Shokuiku School Project conducted in January 2016. The participants consisted of 1,632 elementary school children who answered questions about their lifestyle, while their parents answered parental lifestyle questions, including Breslow's seven health practice score (BHPS). Logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate the strength of the relationship between parental lifestyle factors and parental dietary attitudes or children's dietary habits. Results: Compared with good maternal BHPS (scores of 6-7), poor maternal BHPS (scores of 0-3) was significantly associated with less parental interest in Shokuiku, less parental consideration of nutrient balance, and an increased rate of children eating breakfast alone (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 2.95; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.82-4.78, aOR 3.86; 95% CI, 2.50-5.96, and aOR 2.42; 95% CI, 1.34-4.35, respectively). There was no significant difference between parental BHPS and the following children's dietary habits: frequency of eating breakfast, vegetable intake, and snacking. These habits of children were associated with their personal lifestyle factors. Conclusion: Two types of dietary habits among children were associated with lifestyle factors of both parents and children. Nutrition education might be especially important for parents to improve their dietary attitude and children's dietary habits. However, different nutrition education interventions would be needed to appropriately address each dietary habit.

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“…Female college students who skipped breakfast also showed a tendency to have constipation [16,[30][31][32][33]. In general, food intake induces bowel movement via the parasympathetic nerve pathway, being effective especially just after waking-up [34][35][36].…”

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Adolescent Dietary Habit-induced Obstetric and Gynecologic Disease (ADHOGD) as a New Hypothesis—Possible Involvement of Clock System

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There are growing concerns that poor dietary behaviors at young ages will increase the future risk of chronic diseases in adulthood. We found that female college students who skipped breakfast had higher incidences of dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation, suggesting that meal skipping affects ovarian and uterine functions. Since dysmenorrhea is more prevalent in those with a past history of dieting, we proposed a novel concept that inadequate dietary habits in adolescence become a trigger for the subsequent development of organic gynecologic diseases. Since inadequate feeding that was limited during the non-active phase impaired reproductive functions in post-adolescent female rats, we hypothesize that circadian rhythm disorders due to breakfast skipping disrupts the hypothalamic–pituitary–ovarian axis, impairs the reproductive rhythm, and leads to ovarian and uterine dysfunction. To explain how reproductive dysfunction is memorized from adolescence to adulthood, we hypothesize that the peripheral clock system also plays a critical role in the latent progression of reproductive diseases together with the central system, and propose naming this concept “adolescent dietary habit-induced obstetric and gynecologic disease (ADHOGD)”. This theory will contribute to analyzing the etiologies of and developing prophylaxes for female reproductive diseases from novel aspects. In this article, we describe the precise outline of the above hypotheses with the supporting evidence in the literature.

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Lifestyle and bowel movements in school children: Results from the Toyama Birth Cohort Study

Abstract: Non-daily and totally irregular BM are common in children, and there are many relevant lifestyle factors. Establishing regular lifestyle habits may lessen constipation.

Cited by 11 publications

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Self-Reported Academic Performance and Lifestyle Habits of School Children in Japan

Self-Reported Academic Performance and Lifestyle Habits of School Children in Japan

Relationship Between Parental Lifestyle and Dietary Habits of Children: A Cross-Sectional Study

Adolescent Dietary Habit-induced Obstetric and Gynecologic Disease (ADHOGD) as a New Hypothesis—Possible Involvement of Clock System

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