Jb. Qu et al., URBAN-RURAL COMPARISON OF NUTRIENT INTAKE BY ADULT WOMEN IN SHANDONG PROVINCE, CHINA, Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, 183(1), 1997, pp. 21-36
In 1996, 24-hour food duplicate samples mere collected from two groups
of 50 nonsmoking women each; one group was in Jinan, the capital city
for of Shandong Province in China, and the other in a farming village
in Zhangqiu area some 30 km away from the city. They had also physica
l examinations including hematology and serum biochemistry tests. Nutr
itional analysis of the duplicate samples were conducted utilizing sta
ndard food composition tables for Chinese populations. The urban-rural
comparison between the two groups showed that women in Zhangqiu took
significantly less lipid (54 g/day) and more carbohydrate (335 g/day)
than Jinan counterparts (76 g lipid and 254 g carbohydrate/day), altho
ugh there was no significant difference in total energy and protein in
take (1968 kcal/day in Jinan vs. 2071 kcal/day in Zhangqiu, and 67 g p
rotein/day in Jinan vs. 61 g/day in Zhangqiu). The intakes of the thre
e major nutrients were sufficient in majorities of members in both gro
ups. Iron intake was also sufficient (22 and 25 mg/day in Jinan and Zh
angqiu, respectively), but intake of calcium was insufficient in more
than a half of the subjects in both groups. Zhangqiu women heavily dep
ended on plant-based foods both for protein and lipid, whereas the dep
endency was less remarkable among Jinan women. (C) 1997 Tohoku Univers
ity Medical Press.