The purpose of this study was to understand the actual conditions of the dietary habits and toexamine issues of junior high school students in a town in Gunma, Japan. In 2012, we conducted ananonymous self-reported questionnaire of all 163 students attending the junior high school in that area.Survey contents were as follows: Eating habits (such as taking breakfast and vegetables, food preferences),and food culture(such as awareness of food culture,taking locally produced foods). The surveyresulted in a 64.4％ response rate. It was shown that 100 students (95.2％) took breakfast almost everyday. Only 6 students(5.8％)took five or more servings of vegetables per day.34 students took breakfastwith their family(32.4％) and 86 students took dinner with their family(81.9％). Less than 40％ of thestudents knew about locally produced food (n＝37,35.2％)or took those products often (n＝40,38.1％).With the results of the survey’s data, certain issues have been raised, and new procedures have beenimplemented. Dietary habits and issues are as follows: further promotion regarding taking breakfast,communication with the family while taking meals, promotion of increasing the daily vegetable intake,and understanding of food culture.
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