Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences
Open Access

Differences in dietary intake of women with standard weight but varying body fat percentages, in Japan

28^th World Nutrition Congress

November 12-13, 2018 Sydney, Australia

Minatsu Kobayashi, Eri Abe and Mieko Horiguchi

Otsuma Women’s University, Japan

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nutr Food Sci

Abstract :

Because of the strong desire to be thin, the proportion of young women who are underweight (BMI<18.5) is high in Japan. However, there are so-called hidden obese people whose body fat ratio is high despite having a normal BMI. These patients have excessive accumulated adipose tissue, referred to as visceral fat type obesity, resulting in the onset of lifestyle-related diseases leading to arteriosclerosis. In this study, young females with a standard BMI (18.5

Biography :

E-mail: mnkobaya@otsuma.ac.jp