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Background
How has this issue been spread and known


The issue that children have meal alone have been well-known for more than 25 years in Japan. Miyuki Adachi, the professor at Kagawa Nutrition University and NHK, which is Japan's public broadcasting cooperation researched the state of children at meal in 1982. They examined 2000 children, and the research was taken by drawing pictures at breakfast. The report gave people a shock. 39 percent of children had breakfast without parents, also more than 10 percent of them had both breakfast and supper only children. The pictures drawn by them appeared the poor of communication and foods. Because of this investigation, people have been aware of the children's healths that are affected by food and eating situations. Thus, Japanese government and some education companies or organizations have been doing their own researches, but the situation is getting worse. From the report of Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare in 2005, all children groups; divided the age, seven to nine, ten to twelve, and thirteen to fifteen, reached over 40 percent of children who don't eat breakfast with parents. Moreover, the percentage of them who are standard proportions was 56.8, which is more than 5 points decrease rather than that in 1988. Some specialists says that the decline of standard proportions is connected to the children's eating habits. So eating alone is still a big problem concerning children not only in Japan, but also USA and Europe.

Ref: http://www.mhlw.go.jp/houdou/2007/05/dl/h0516-3c_0001.pdf
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